Talk:John Knowles

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Can someone who works on this article pls expand on or link "Exeter" and the like, here and in the daughter articles. I came here from Peace Breaks Out thinking it was about a school in Devon (in the UK, you know the original one...). JackyR 11:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering if there is any certain reason why John knowles chose the title a seperate peace?

I was also wondering if theres any other website that i could go to that would tell a bit more about John Knowles' life facts. blah I'm not 100% sure the LGBT tag is accurate, could someone find a source to back this up? I can find nothing but speculation surrounding the subtext of a Seperate Peace...

It seems he's a gay icon and The Separate Peace is considered one of the top 100 gay novels ever, but I can't actually find a source that says he is in fact, himself gay. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

He wrote another book called "The Collector."

No, The Collector is by John Fowles.

A Separate Peace refers to a potential breakdown of alliances in wartime.

Self-Censorship Bordering on the Coy

The notes on Gore Vidal and the reference to a debate on the novel's subtext are unnecessarily (insultingly) evasive. Vidal is a gay novelist and essayist, and the subtext in question is a gay subtext. MJFiorello 05:47, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

The homosexual subtext in A Separate Peace, if it's really there at all, is pretty sublimated. It's set in a boy's school. All kids who go to boy's schools and have close friends there are not gay. Yes, Gore Vidal is a queer writer, but I believe he has characterized himself as bisexual.

As a bisexual woman, I'd be the last person to try to suppress an homosexual subtext in A Separate Peace. But I think that bigger problems with this article are a lack of discussion of any of Knowles' other novels, and a dearth of information about his life in general. Pascalulu88 (talk) 04:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Now self-censorship has become plain old censorship. Is the debate over the novel's subtext so disturbing that we are forbidden to name it? It's the 21st century. Have you been to a high school classroom recently...not to mention the Internet itself? MJFiorello 11:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Would the person who keeps deleting my references to homosexuality please justify said deletions? My inclusions are factual and relevant. MJFiorello 21:17, 25 June 2007 (UTC)