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[This entry was updated by Hallman Bell Bryant (Clemson University) from the entry by Robert M. Nelson (University of Richmond) in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 120-135.] John Knowles, the third of four children of...

John Knowles, the third of four children of James Myron and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles, was born in Fairmont, West Virginia. He has an older brother and sister who are twins, and a younger sister. Knowles left West Virginia at fifteen to attend the Phill...

A Separate Peace - John Knowles - 1959 Introduction A Separate Peace is John Knowles's most famous work and has been a popular secondary school text since its first publication in 1959. This is largely because its primary characters are...

A Separate Peace by John Knowles John Knowles was born in 1926 and attended the prestigious New England boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in the early 1940s. The following decade Knowles wrote his first published novel, A Separate Peace. At the...

A Separate Peace is John Knowles' first published novel, released in 1959. The work is Knowles' most widely-known, and one of the most famous coming-of-age...

Roscoe Bartlett, the 80-year-old Maryland congressman/seer who is trying to bring our attention to the coming crisis in oil supplies, a crisis of which the recent gas-price increases (which demagogues like Barbara Boxer would prefer to regard as price-gouging) are a mere foretaste. My job...

Sudan's ambassador to Washington said Wednesday that sanctions ordered by President Bush threaten to unravel peace agreements and break his country apart.Ambassador John Ukec Lueth Ukec said the sanctions would end up hurting ordinary people rather than government officials.Bush ordered the sanctions Tuesday to pressure...

Two Iraqi children with critical heart conditions were brought to Israel for emergency surgery Thursday, a rare display of cooperation between Arab countries and the Jewish state.The 5-month-old girl and 11-year-old boy were among 40 Iraqi children who were screened a day earlier in Jordan...

The reason I was at the Wyndham, I was attending the Andover commencement (my wife's niece). There was something thrilling about it, something else crushing. The thrilling thing is that diversity is today a bold insurmountable fact of elite culture. The graduating class was filled...

The development and resolution of tensions between Gene and Finny provide the well-balanced structure of A Separate Peace, as several critics have noted. What has not been appreciated, however, is the ambiguity of the boys' conflict in its several phases, an ambiguity expressed in both character and symbol. The story is not a simple allegory of man's fortunate or unfortunate fall from innocence, or even an extension of that theological debate to the process of growing up, though both of these ...

Professor Halio's recent appreciation of the two short novels of John Knowles [see excerpt above] was especially welcome. Knowles's work, and in particular his fine first novel, A Separate Peace, has not yet received the close attention it merits. In a time that has seen high praise for fat, awkwardly-managed novels, he stands out as a precise and economical craftsman. For this alone he demands serious consideration. Although Professor Halio calls attention to this technical achievement—...

To read A Separate Peace is to discover a novel which is completely satisfactory and yet so provocative that the reader wishes immediately to return to it. John Knowles' achievement is due, I believe, to his having successfully imbued his characters and setting with a symbolism that while informative is never oppressive. Because of this the characters and the setting retain both the vitality of verisimilitude and the psychological tension of symbolism. What happens in the novel is that Gene Forrester...

Discusses important themes from the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Analyzes the major characters, including Finny.

Essay analyzes the aspect of man's inhumanity toward man within the novel "A Separate Peace."

This is an essay about the book "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. I write about how the the character Finny has Gene basically in a mind trap and how Gene is the weaker more insecure figure.