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(1926-2001) Novelist, writer. John Knowles was best known as the author of “A Separate Peace.”

Full Name

John Knowles

Locations

Suffolk

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1926.

1959

LITWORK

A Separate Peace
London, Secker & Warburg; New York, Macmillan Co.

Novel. Winner of the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the William Faulkner Award.

1962

LITWORK

Morning In Antibes
New York: Macmillan.

Novel.

1964

LITWORK

Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad
New York: Macmillan.

Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

Indian Summer
New York: Random House.

Novel.

1968

LITWORK

Phineas: Six Stories
New York: Random House.

Short story collection.

1970

RESIDENCE

Knowles became a permanent resident in Southampton, Long Island, New York in 1970.

1971

LITWORK

The Paragon


Novel.

1974

LITWORK

Spreading Fires
New York: Random House.

Novel.

1979

LITWORK

A Vein of Riches
Boston: Little, Brown.

Novel.

1981

LITWORK

Peace Breaks Out
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Novel.

1986

LITWORK

The Private Life of Axie Reed
New York: Jesse Grunberg

Novel.

2001

DEATH

John Knowles died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2001.

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