Anne Hiebert Alton Alton is a member of an honorary research
association at the University of Sydney, Australia. In the
following essay, she places A Separate Peace within three
distinct literary traditions and examines the novel's strengths
and weaknesses. John Knowles based his first novel, A Separate
Peace (1959), on two short stories, entitled "Phineas" and "A
Turn in the Sun." An immediate success, it won the William
Faulkner Foundation Award, the Rosenthal Award of the National
Institute of Arts and Letters, and an award from the Independent
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