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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 · 228,673 ratings · 10,409 reviews · 80 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Separate Peace 3.60 avg rating — 226,616 ratings — published 1959 — 219 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 3.49 avg rating — 1,164 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 — 251 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 3.37 avg rating — 178 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 — 114 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 3.35 avg rating — 102 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 3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1983 — 6 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 3.12 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1974 — 6 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 3.35 avg rating — 34 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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“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

tags: a-separate-peace, gene, john-knowles, phineas, tree

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What frequently challenged or banned book for adults should we read in January, February and March 2011?

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

36 votes, 28.1%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

25 votes, 19.5%

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

14 votes, 10.9%

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

13 votes, 10.2%

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

13 votes, 10.2%

The Joy of Gay Sex, Revised & Expanded Third Edition by Charles Silverstein

9 votes, 7.0%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

7 votes, 5.5%

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer

6 votes, 4.7%

This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

3 votes, 2.3%

Dictionary of American slang by Harold Wentworth

2 votes, 1.6%

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