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John Knowles

Born

in Fairmont, West Virginia, The United States

September 16, 1926

Died

November 29, 2001

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

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Average rating: 3.6 · 233,843 ratings · 11,088 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Separate Peace 3.60 avg rating — 231,719 ratings — published 1959 — 220 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peace Breaks Out 3.50 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phineas 3.54 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Summer 3.36 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Study Guide to A Separate Peace with Connections 3.70 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paragon 3.34 avg rating — 103 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Stolen Past 3.70 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spreading Fires 3.14 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morning In Antibes 3.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Vein of Riches 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages

11 votes, 23.4%

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

7 votes, 14.9%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes

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