Thomas Mann was the author of the Buddenbrooks, a novel published in 1901. He was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. William READ was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote the novel The Buddenbrooks in 1878. James AGEE was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter, and film critic who wrote the novel A Death in the Family in 1957. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who wrote the poem 'The Raven' in 1845.