For 10 points, name the author of Buddenbrooks and Death in Venice.
This author wrote a novella in which two men decapitate themselves before a statue of Kali, only to have Sita place the wrong heads on each body. This author created a character who is embarrassed when he is called "Fraulein" after making an incorrect move in a dance class and becomes infatuated with Ingeborg Holm. A character created by this author has a dream about a swampland dotted with islands and encounters several (*) red-haired men in straw hats. One of this author's novels depicts the divorces of Antonie from Herr Grunlich and Herr Parmeneder and her brother Christian's quarrels with Tom, which lead to the decline of the title merchant family. One character created by this man dies after consuming some over-ripe strawberries and has a loving obsession with a Polish boy named Tadzio while on vacation. For 10 points, name the author of Buddenbrooks and Death in Venice.
This author wrote a novella in which two men decapitate themselves before a statue of Kali, only to have Sita place the wrong heads on each body.
Thomas Mann