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A Separate Peace

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John Knowles Biography

Early Years
Jobs and Literary Writing
Honors and Awards

About A Separate Peace

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13

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Gene Forrester
Phineas (Finny)
Brinker Hadley
Elwin (Leper) Lepellier

Critical Essays

From Innocence to Experience in A Separate Peace
Gene and Finny: Doubles

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John Knowles Biography

Honors and Awards

A Separate Peace won Knowles the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.The work also received the William Faulkner Award for the most promising first novel of 1960. In 1961, Knowles accepted the National Association of Independent Schools Award.

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