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A stolen past john knowles6/26/2023 The setting of "The Devon School" is a thinly veiled fictionalization of it, with both campus and town easily recognizable. The novel is based upon Knowles's experiences at Phillips Exeter Academy. Published in New York in 1960 by Macmillan, it would be his most celebrated work. A Separate PeaceĪ Separate Peace was first published in London by Secker and Warburg in 1959. With encouragement from Thornton Wilder, he concurrently began writing novels. He was a record-holding varsity swimmer during his sophomore year.Įarly in Knowles's career, he wrote for the Hartford Courant and was assistant editor for Holiday magazine. While at Yale, Knowles contributed stories to campus humor magazine The Yale Record and served on the board of the Yale Daily News during his sophomore, junior and senior years, notably as editorial secretary during his senior year. Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949. Peter's High School in Fairmont, West Virginia from 1938 until 1940, before continuing at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1945.įollowing his time at Phillips Exeter, Knowles spent two years serving in the U.S. His father was vice president of a coal company, earning an income which afforded them a comfortable living. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from Concord, New Hampshire. Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of James M.
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