Monika Mann - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Monika Mann
- Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer.
- She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.
- She married in 1939 but lost her husband the following year, when the ship on which they were travelling to Canada was sunk by a German submarine.
- Later that year she joined her family in Princeton, New Jersey, and was granted US citizenship in 1952. Between 1954 and 1986, she lived with her partner Antonio Spadaro in Villa Monacone on Capri.
- This was her most productive time as a writer and her books and several magazine articles were written during this period.
- After the death of her partner she left Capri and spent her last years until her death with her brother Golo's adopted family in Leverkusen, Germany.
