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 same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
John Knowles Quotes
You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.
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| Birth: | 16th September, 1926 |
| Death: | 29th November, 2001 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
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John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA. He was an American novelist. He graduated from Yale University in 1949. Early in his career, he wrote for the Hartford Courant and was assistant editor for Holiday magazine. During the 1960s he was a writer in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Princeton University, and in the 1990s he taught creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. He wrote several novels include: A Separate Peace (Won- William Faulkner Foundation Award in 1961, and National Book Award finalist in 1961), Morning in Antibes, Indian Summer, The Paragon, Spreading Fires, A Vein of Riches, and Peace Breaks Out.
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