Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a novelist, critic, and essayist who received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Germany, he fled to Switzerland and then to California after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, returning to Switzerland in 1952. His most influential works include
Death in Venice and
The Magic Mountain.
Walter D. Morris (1929-2001) was a translator and professor of German literature at Iowa State University.
Mark Lilla is a historian and professor of humanities at Columbia University. New York Review Books has published his
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction and
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. He lives in New York City.