Реферат: Notes For A Separate Peace Essay Research

boarding school in New Hampshire, when he was fifteen years old;

he studied there during all of World War II. The setting of Devon

in his first novel was based on Exeter. After completing Exeter in

1945, Knowles spent eight months in the Air Force Aviation Cadet

Program; but he decided to continue his studies. He entered Yale

University, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. It

was during his years at Yale that he began his literary career,

contributing stories to the undergraduate literary magazine and

editing the school newspaper.

After leaving Yale, Knowles worked as a journalist and free-lance

writer. He also traveled in Europe and began writing and

publishing his short stories. In 1957, he became an associate editor

for Holiday Magazine and continued to write his fiction. He

published his first novel, A Separate Peace, in 1959. It became so

popular that he was able to resign his position at the magazine in

order to travel and write full time. The novel also won both the

Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and

the William Faulkner Foundation Award.

After A Separate Peace, Knowles published eight other novels,

including Morning in Antibes (1962), Indian Summer (1966), The

Paragon (1971), and Peace Breaks Out (1981); none of them

received as much critical or popular acclaim as did his first novel.

He has also published a travel book entitled Double Vision and a

collection of short stories entitled Phineas. In addition to writing,

Knowles has lectured widely and served as writer-in-residence at

Princeton University.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Although World War II serves as the background for the entire

novel, it is painted in vague terms. Few specific details are given,