Novelist John Knowles, whose 1960 book “A Separate Peace” became a modern classic for its sensitive evocation of adolescent conflict, died Thursday after a short illness at a convalescent home ...

The late American novelist John Knowles is not so well known on this side of the Atlantic. Largely that is because his greatest work, A Separate Peace, a novel of undisputed classic status in ...

Eleven publishers turned down A Separate Peace. The book first appeared in print in 1959 thanks to the London publisher Secker and Warburg, while the initial U.S. publication took place on leap ...