His later novels, including ''A Vein of Riches'' (1978), received respectful reviews but never captured a mass audience. Knowles wrote many books, but ''A Separate Peace'' and its sequel, ''Peace Breaks Out'' (Bantam, 1982), are his only novels still in print. The novel explores peace and conflict in a space that is both isolated from the war and beginning to feel the compromise as the war encroaches on the campus in both. In 1972 it was made into a film by Paramount Pictures. Published in 1959, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, depicts a teenager’s coming-of-age at a New England boy’s boarding school during the final years of World War II. The novel, which drew good reviews, was also a huge commercial success, selling more than eight million copies. Salinger and ''Lord of the Flies'' by William Golding. Published by Macmillan in 1960, ''A Separate Peace'' won the William Faulkner Foundation Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and soon came to be compared to classics like ''The Catcher in the Rye'' by J. '' 'A Separate Peace' is based on experiences that I had, but it is not literally true,'' he said. Knowles came to explaining the origin of the novel was in an interview for The South Florida Sun-Sentinel shortly after he moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1987. ''John used to say he would never answer that question,'' his brother-in-law, Bob Maxwell, said when announcing Mr.
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