![]() ![]() (Yes, those marble stairs are still there. His descriptions of the fictional "Devon school" in A Separate Peace are largely based, physically, on the Exeter campus. Like the main character and narrator of A Separate Peace, Knowles was born in the South (West Virginia) and during World War II attended boarding school in New Hampshire, at Phillips Exeter Academy. ![]() Speaking of English class, Knowles seems to have followed that old English teacher's adage: write what you know. ![]() ![]() Just ask any of the high school students who have read it in class. Still, nothing ever topped Knowles's debut A Separate Peace remains his most popular and well-known work. (Things get messy pretty fast, as you might expect from a bunch of ill-supervised adolescents.) Published in 1959, the novel is the first from author John Knowles, who would follow his breakout success with many more novels, short stories, and essays, including a sequel of sorts, Peace Breaks Out. A Separate Peace tells the story of a sixteen-year-old boy at boarding school in New Hampshire during World War II, and the mixed feelings of admiration and jealousy he harbors for his best friend and roommate. ![]()
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