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A Separate Peace: John Knowles
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John Knowles
John Knowles' Career
"A Separate
Peace"
has been made
into a movie twice
(1972 & 2004)
"A Separate
Peace" won the
William Faulkner
Foundation Award
and the Rosenthal
Award of the National
Institute of Arts
and Letters
Title comes from Ernest Hemingway set of short stories titled, "In Our Time," set during World War I
Other works include:
Morning in Antibes (1962)
Indian Summer (1966)
The Paragon (1971)
Peace Breaks Out (1981)
1950-1952:
Drama critic and
reporter for
The Hartford
Courant
Wrote
A Separate Peace
in the 1950s.
Published
in 1960.
"A
Separate
Peace"
sells over
8 million
copies
Peace
Breaks
Out (1981):
a sequel to
A Separate
Peace
A Separate Peace
was based on his experiences at Phillip Exeter Academy in New Haven, Connecticut.
It is NOT to be mistaken as a memoir.
"A Separate
Peace" allowed
Knowles write
full-time.
Attended Yale (1944)
After
Yale, joined
Air Force.
"A Separate
Peace" is
dedicated to
his parents.
Died in
Fort Lauderdale,
Florida at 75
in 2001
John Knowles' Early Life
At 15, Knowles
attends New Hampshire's
prestigious
Phillips Exeter Academy.
Knowles
died after
a short
illness
Graduates Yale
in 1949 Bachelor's in English.
John Knowles' Family
Returns to Yale
published stories in
The Yale Record
Two sisters
(Dorothy Maxwell
and Marjorie Johnson)
and one brother
(James Knowles)
Born Sept. 16, 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia.
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