Jo Ann Beard

Loading …

Litstack Rec: The Boys of My Youth & Aurora

Published on : 25 January, 201925 January, 2019 Published by : Lauren Alwan

The Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard When it was released in 1998, I somehow missed Jo Ann Beard’s debut collection of essays, but as luck would have it, I recently fell down an Internet rabbit hole and ended up here, at the first publication of her now iconic essay, “The Fourth State [….]

On this day, September 16, in 1926, John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia. He is best known for his 1959 novel, A Separate Peace, which is one man’s reminiscences of his youth at prep school under the pall of World War II. While not autobiographical, the school in the novel is based on the Phillips Exeter Academy which the author attended in his youth (one of the main characters was based on Gore Vidal, a classmate of Knowles). While he wrote 25 other works, none reached the same popularity as A Separate Peace. Knowles died in 2001, at age 75.

Instagram did not return a 200.