This German novelist's death was not in Venice but in Switzerland on Aug. 12, 1955
.... Mann is renowned as a novelist of ideas, though 
commentators generally ... my books are not written for Prague and New York, 
but for Germans," wrote... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Mann | Biography, Books and Facts - Famous Authors [PAR] Thomas Mann Biography - Thomas Mann was a German writer, novelist, 
philanthropist ... His reputation as a writer escalated with his novel 'Death in 
Venice' published in 1912.