![]() ![]() Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949. Following his time at Phillips Exeter, Knowles spent eight months serving in the US Army Air Forces at the end of World War II. Peter's High School in Fairmont from 1938 to 1940, before he continued at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated in 1945. As a youth, Knowles would remark that he could write just as well as the stories from The Saturday Evening Post. ![]() ![]() His father was a coal company executive, which earned an income that afforded the family a comfortable living. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from Concord, New Hampshire. Knowles was born on September 17, 1926, in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of James M. John Knowles ( / n oʊ l z/ September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959). William Faulkner Foundation Award (1961) Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. ![]()
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