Knowles, John (Vol. 4) - Knowles, John 1926–
Knowles, John 1926–
Knowles is an American novelist and short story writer. His particular achievement has been his sympathetic examination of the problems of young adults in the Fifties and Sixties. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-18.)
For an excellent case of mechanical neatness and righteousness, consider John Knowles's little sermon Indian Summer. Like everything Knowles has written, despite his protestations, the book is a carefully constructed little machine…. Only twice in Indian Summer does Knowles fall into writing like a novelist. He has a splendid scene in Kansas, in which Kinsolving takes up a crop-duster biplane and behaves gloriously like himself—doing stupid things, nearly killing himself, and smashing all the countryside; clumsily realizing it's stupid and dangerous but delighting in it anyway, making comically sober but ridiculous observations to himself which Knowles, in the ecstasy of honest...
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