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 Biography of John Knowles
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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... summary from source:
 Biography of John Knowles
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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... 
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 John Knowles Quotes
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 John Knowles ( September 16 , 1926 - November 29 , 2001 ) was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace . Sourced A Separate Peace (1959) He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and...
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 Knowles, John
73 words, approx. 1 pages(born Sept. 16, 1926, Fairmont, W.Va., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 2001, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) U.S. author. Educated at Yale University, he gained prominence for his first novel, A Separate Peace (1959), about the competitive friendship of two... summary from source:
 John Knowles Information
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John Knowles (September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001), b. Fairmont, West Virginia, was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace. A 1945 graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, Knowles graduated from Yale...
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 Acoustic Guitar John Knowles
07/01/2006: 1,017 words, approx. 3 pages The veteran Nashville guitarist shows how to use the circle of fifths to reharmonize-and make new-a familiar old tune like "Red River Valley." When John Knowles arrived in Nashville in the mid-1970s, he quickly became part of a circle of guitarists that included... summary from source:
The Independent - London Obituary: John Knowles
12/07/2001: 862 words, approx. 3 pages AFFLUENT ADOLESCENTS are not exclusive to the UK, so unsurprisingly the United States has its own version of the English public schools. Known as "prep schools" (though their students are usually at least 14 years old), these boarding institutions are most commonly found in... summary from source:
 The New York Observer War and Non-Sacrifice
5/28/2006: 259 words, approx. 1 pagesRoscoe 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... summary from source:
The New York Observer Andover Commencement, Moral Melodrama
6/4/2006: 403 words, approx. 1 pagesThe 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...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter Wolfe
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John Knowles's concern with morality colors all his books. This preoccupation finds its most general expression in a question asked in Double Vision …, an informal travel journal: "Can man prevail against the bestiality he himself has struggled out of by a supreme effort?" Knowles's novels, instead of attacking the question head-on, go about it indirectly. They ask, first, whether a person can detach himself from his background—his society, his tradition, and the pr... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Jay L. Halio
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[It is] heartening to see a few like John Knowles who, taking his cue from [Ernest Hemingway's] The Sun Also Rises rather than from [Hemingway's] For Whom the Bell Tolls, has brought back to recent fiction some of the clear craftsmanship and careful handling of form that characterizes our earlier and best fiction in this century. (p. 107) [Before] man can be redeemed back into social life, he must first come to terms with himself, he must first—as has been said so often of American writ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
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Indian Summer is a selection of the Literary Guild, and in the Guild's bulletin for August, Knowles says that the book "came about through the collision in my mind of two things: a strange little town I knew in Connecticut, and the friendships I have formed with people who later turned out to be very rich." This, however, was not the whole story: "But in essence what I tried for in Indian Summer was neither a novel of place nor a novel about great wealth. I wished instead to expr...
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