A Separate Peace

TRUE FIRST IS UK — confirmed against multiple independent sources. Secker & Warburg (London) published the novel in 1959 after American houses passed on it; Macmillan (New York) followed in 1960, roughly a year later, and is the first American edition, not the first. fedpo's US entry states outright that the true first was published in the UK by Secker & Warburg, preceding the American. Both are collected — the Secker & Warburg as the true first of Knowles's first published novel, the Macmillan as the first American and the text most US readers know. Census claim confirmed as written.