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John Marsden Ehle Jr. (December 13, 1925 – March 24, 2018) [1] was an American novelist known best for his fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South. He has been described as "the father of Appalachian literature".
Ehle was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. Her ancestry includes Romanian (from a maternal great-grandmother) and, paternally, German and English. [5] [6] Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche ...
[2] [3] Hal Borland, in a review for The New York Times, praised Ehle's eloquent writing and dialogue, as well as the dramatic narrative underpinning its exploration of life in the "pioneer past." He wrote that the "story moves—even when it seems to pause for sights and sounds and smells that taunt the senses, even when it deals with herbal ...
John Walter Ehle (May 11, 1873 – July 25, 1927) was a Fireman First Class serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Biography [ edit ]
Last One Home is a 1984 [1] crime novel written by John Ehle. The novel was Elhe's sixth and final book in his Appalachian series that traces the King family from The Land Breakers in 1779. It was published by Press 53, LLC. [ 2 ]
In the summer of 1962 he met John Ehle, a novelist and professor whom he quickly took on as an adviser on public policy. [3] With Ehle he met with leaders of the Ford Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, and discussed a variety of issues with them, including anti-poverty efforts. [4]
John Walter Ehle (1873–1927), Fireman First Class serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War John Ehle (1925–2018), U.S. writer Jennifer Ehle (born 1969), British-U.S. actress, daughter of John Ehle
Winter People is a 1989 American romantic-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and starring Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis.It is based on the novel by John Ehle.Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934.