John Knowles (/noʊlz/; September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959). He died in 2001 at the age of 75. Read full biography of John Knowles →
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist... →
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone... →
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant... →
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult... →
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the... →
John Knowles (/noʊlz/; September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959). He died in 2001 at the age of 75.