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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1959
  • Latest Book:
    May 1986
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



    • / General Fiction
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    GENE was a lonely, introverted intellectual. PHINEAS was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A SEPARATE PEACE. A great bestseller for...



  • A decent novel by the author of the wonderful "A Separate Peace". Not in the same league as that book, but this story of a young man who returns to his home town and becomes involved in the intrigues of an enormously rich and powerful family there is...



  • From a review In Phineas; Six Stories, the character Phineas, featured in Knowles other novel A Seperate Peace is again placed in the spolight at his school. This time it is in a sequence of short stories, some involving Phineas's witty charm, others...





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  • A diverse group of people--Allan Prieston, eminent author Reeves Lockhart, and a family of exiled Russian aristocrats--are bound together in a drama shaped by the tensions of the present and the ambiguities of the past...




    • / Romantic Suspense
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    The sensual French Riviera is the setting for a sinister dance of passion and terror which hurls five people inexorably toward their own private hells. "Just the right touch of malice." New York Times...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Knowles has published 9 books.

John Knowles does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Private Life of Axie Reed, was published in May 1986.

The first book by John Knowles, A Separate Peace, was published in January 1959.

No. John Knowles does not write books in series.