A Separate Peace

John Knowles (1926–2001) was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out, and The Paragon.

“I think it is the best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself.” —Aubrey Menen

“A quietly vital and cleanly  written novel that moves, page by page, towards a most interesting target.” —Truman Capote

“Is he the successor to Salinger for whom we have been waiting so long?” —Encounter

“A masterpiece.” —National Review

“A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.” —The Observer

“Mr. Knowles has something to say about youth and war that few contemporary novelists have attempted to say and none has said better.” —Warren Miller