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John Knowles
American novelist
For other people named John Knowles, see John Knowles (disambiguation).
John Knowles (; September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).
Biography
Knowles was born on September 16, 1926,[1] in Fairmont, West Virginia,[2] the son of James M. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from Concord, New Hampshire.
His father was a coal company executive, which earned an income that afforded the family a comfortable living.[3][4] As a youth, Knowles would remark that he could write just as well as the stories from The Saturday Evening Post.[5]
Knowles attended St.
Peter's High School in Fairmont from 1938 to 1940, before he continued at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated in 1945. Following his time at Phillips Exeter, Knowles spent eight months serv