Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnish and wax. In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left. I didn't entirely like this glossy new surface, because it made the school look like a museum, and that's exactly what it was to me, and what I did not want it to be. Perhaps the school wasn't as well kept up in those days perhaps varnish, along with everything else, had gone to war. But, of course, fifteen years before there had been a war going on. It seemed more sedate than I remembered it, more perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation. His later novels, including ''A Vein of Riches'' (1978), received respectful reviews but never captured a mass audience.I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. Knowles wrote many books, but ''A Separate Peace'' and its sequel, ''Peace Breaks Out'' (Bantam, 1982), are his only novels still in print. In 1972 it was made into a film by Paramount Pictures.
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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