John Knowles (September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001), b. Fairmont, West Virginia, was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace. is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 333rd day of the year (334th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Downtown Fairmont and the Monongahela River in 2006 The Marion County Courthouse in Fairmont Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 19,097 at the 2000 census. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... A Separate Peace (1959) is an award-winning[1] novel written by John Knowles set in the fictional Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II. The book explores the human condition, hate, vengeance, and guilt. ...

A 1945 graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949W. A Separate Peace is based upon Knowles' experiences at Exeter during the summer of 1943. The setting for The Devon School is a thinly veiled fictionalization of Phillips Exeter. The plot should not be taken as autobiographical, although many elements of the novel stem from personal experience. In his essay, "A Special Time, A Special Place," Knowles wrote: Phillips Exeter Academy (most commonly called Exeter, also Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9–12, located on 619 acres[1] in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, fifty miles north of Boston. ... Location in Rockingham County, New Hampshire Coordinates: Country United States State New Hampshire County Rockingham County Incorporated 1638  - Board of Selectmen Paul Binette, Chairman Robert Eastman Joe Pace William Campbell Lionel Ingram Area    - Town 51. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... A Separate Peace (1959) is an award-winning[1] novel written by John Knowles set in the fictional Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II. The book explores the human condition, hate, vengeance, and guilt. ... The Devon School is a fictional place created by author John Knowles in the novels A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out. ...

The only elements in A Separate Peace which were not in that summer were anger, violence, and hatred. There was only friendship, athleticism, and loyalty.

Gore Vidal, in his memoir Palimpsest, acknowledges that he and Knowles concurrently attended Phillips Exeter, with Vidal two years ahead. Vidal states that Knowles told him that the character Brinker, who precipitates the novel's crisis, is based on Vidal. "We have been friends for many years now," Vidal said, "and I admire the novel that he based on our school days, A Separate Peace." Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. ...

A Separate Peace is widely included on high-school curricula. The novel's possible homosexual subtext continues to stimulate spirited debate.but he really did like cheeze its!

Knowles's other significant works are Morning in Antibes, Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad, Indian Summer, The Paragon, and Peace Breaks Out. None of these later works were as well received as A Separate Peace.

A resident of Southampton, New York, Knowles wrote seven novels, a book on travel and a collection of stories. He was the winner of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In his later years, Knowles lectured to university audiences. Southampton, New York is the name of three entities on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. ... Langston Hughes, National Institure of Arts and Letters This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

Selected works

• A Separate Peace, London, Secker & Warburg, 1959; New York, Macmillan Co., 1960
• Morning in Antibes; a novel, New York, Macmillan, 1962
• Double Vision; American Thoughts Abroad, New York, Macmillan, 1964
• Indian Summer, New York, Random House, 1966
• Phineas; six stories, New York, Random House, 1968
• Ballin, New York, Random House, c. 1971
• Spreading Fires, New York, Random House, 1974
• A Vein of Riches, Boston, Little Brown, 1978
• Peace Breaks Out, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981
• A Stolen Past, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983
• The Private Life of Axie Reed, New York: Jesse Grunberg, 1986
• A Special Time, A Special Place, Exeter Academy', 1995 (autobiographical note on Internet)

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Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004. Entry Updated : 10/14/2007 A Separate Peace (1959) is an award-winning[1] novel written by John Knowles set in the fictional Devon School in New Hampshire during World War II. The book explores the human condition, hate, vengeance, and guilt. ... Peace Breaks Out (1981) is a novel by American author John Knowles, better known for A Separate Peace (1959). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. ...