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John Knowles (/ n oʊ l z /; September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).
Apr 19, 2024 · John Knowles (born Sept. 16, 1926, Fairmont, W.Va., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 2001, near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) was an American author, who was best known for his first published novel, A Separate Peace (1959; filmed 1972).
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John Knowles won both critical and popular success with his first novel, A Separate Peace. In the 40 years since its publication, the novel has become a classic for both young adults and adult readers.
- KNOWLES BASED A SEPARATE PEACE ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCE. Like his protagonists Gene and Finny, who are students at the elite Devon School during World War II, Knowles attended the exclusive Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in the early 1940s.
- THE BOOK HAD AN EARLIER EXISTENCE AS A SHORT STORY. After graduating from Yale, Knowles worked as a drama critic at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and as a freelance writer.
- THERE WAS A REAL-LIFE JUMPING TREE … In several key scenes in A Separate Peace, Gene and Finny dare each other to jump off the overhanging limb of a huge tree into the river below.
- AND A REAL-LIFE FINNY. His name was David Hackett, and Knowles met him during a six-week summer session at Exeter in 1943. Hackett attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts during the regular school year.
Dec 1, 2001 · John Knowles, whose coming-of-age novel ''A Separate Peace'' became required reading for generations of high school students, died on Thursday at a convalescent home in a suburb of Fort...
John Knowles Biography. John Knowles was born in 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia. He left home at fifteen years old to attend Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive boarding school located in New Hampshire.
A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1958. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.
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