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Separate peace study guide

T G L L H E LENCOE I T E R AT U R E I B R A RY Study Guide for A Separate Peace by John Knowles i CMeet John Knowles All of my books are based on places places I know very well and feel very deeply about I begin with that place and then the characters and the plot emerge from it A Separate Peace began with a playing ?eld at Exeter Academy ??John Knowles Author John Knowles was born in in Fairmont West Virginia deep in the heart of coal-mining country Although some of his works re ect his West Virginia roots ??in A Vein of Riches for example he tells the story of an early twentieth-century miners strike ?? Knowles ? s best-known works are set in New England His father and mother were originally from Massachusetts and the family often spent summer vacations there Knowles ? s love of New England stems from his experiences as a student At the age of ?fteen he applied to an elite New Hampshire boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy Much to his surprise he was admitted At ?rst Knowles felt out of place He has said that his classmates seemed ??too eastern for me too Yankee too tough ? and that he found the New Hampshire winter ??breathtakingly cold ? Moreover his grades were not the best He admits It quickly seemed probable that I would unk out Then somehow or other I knuckled down learned by myself how to study discovered I had a brain which had more potential than a knack for writing and by the end of that ?rst term I was passing every course comfortably Meanwhile I was falling in love with Exeter Knowles ? s a ?ection for the school is re ected in his ?rst ??and most famous ??novel A Separate Peace Shortly after Knowles entered Exeter the United Sates declared war on Japan and entered World War II Like other young men of the time Knowles went into the military after he graduated from high school He trained to be a pilot in the United States Army Air Force aviation program but when the war ended he decided to go back to school He attended Yale University in New Haven Connecticut where he received a bachelor ? s degree in During his twenties Knowles traveled and earned a living as a freelance writer He wrote the stories ??Phineas ? and ??A Turn in the Sun ? which were to form the core of A Separate Peace Knowles then took a job as an associate editor of a travel magazine Early each morning before going to the o ?ce he worked on A Separate Peace The novel which was ?rst published in England in and the United States in proved to be a success ??so much that Knowles was able to resign from his job and devote his time to writing and to travel Since then Knowles has written a variety