Early stories such as "The Clown," "Tonio Kruger," and "Little Herr Friedemann" contain elements that, when examined next to Mann's diaries, reveal his frustrated bisexuality, his fits of depression, and his frequent illnesses. Using Mann's copious diaries, his letters, and interviews with his children, Hayman draws detailed autobiographical parallels to Mann's writings. He successfully masked the "interior chaos" and self-disgust that so plagued his private life and, as this fine biography shows, became so much a part of his fiction. The "last great European man of letters," 1929 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann took great pains to cultivate a public persona of calm, assured elegance.
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