John Knowles

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing...

"Indian Summer is John Knowles' third novel, one generation beyond A Separate Peace but again making an opposition of contrasts between two young men, this time less private and more extensive in implication. Cleet Kinsolving, something of a loner, as "unshakable" as his Indian grandmother, returns from the war (1946) with an inviolable sense of who he is and what life should be. He's determined not to "fall behind in the Indian summer of brief, too...