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About the Author

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John Knowles was born on September 16, 1926, in Fairmont, West Virginia. He lived there until he enrolled at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1941, where […]

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Overview

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A Separate Peace was recognized immediately as an extremely sensitive account of a young man’s self-discovery through the process of maturation, and the passage of […]

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Setting

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The values that John Knowles emphasizes in A Separate Peace reveal his belief that an appreciation of nature’s wonders is fundamental to a life of […]

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Themes and Characters

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The opening pages of A Separate Peace serve as a prologue in the “present” when the book is being written, fifteen years after 1942, the […]

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Literary Qualities

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None of the books John Knowles has written since A Separate Peace has achieved nearly the critical or popular success of his first novel. The […]

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Social Sensitivity

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It is a testament to Knowles’s ability that a story about relatively privileged young men in the 1940s, written from the perspective of the quiet, […]