Knowles was honored with the position of writer-in-residence at both Princeton University and the University of North Carolina, and has also given lectures at various schools across the country. In addition to A Separate Peace, John Knowles has published eight other books in addition, he wrote a travel book, and also published a collection of his short stories. When the novel became successful, Knowles was able to quit his job with the magazine, and devote himself to his writing. With encouragement from Thornton Wilder, who took interest in Knowles' writing, he started working on A Separate Peace, which became his first published novel. He returned to the United States from Europe in 1957, and took a position as an associate editor at Holiday magazine. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1949.Īfter graduation, Knowles traveled to Europe and worked as a journalist until the mid 1950's his work also consisted of various free-lance pieces and short stories. Army Air Force's Aviation Cadet Program, and became a student at Yale University after completing several months in the program. Instead, he joined the war effort as part of the U.S. He graduated from Exeter in 1945, but did not immediately proceed to college. John Knowles was born in 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia at age 15, he became a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, a well-known boarding school in New Hampshire, not unlike Devon, the fictional school he writes about in A Separate Peace.
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