American writer (1925-2018)
Factsheet
Born John Marsden Ehle, Jr.
(1925-12-13)December 13, 1925
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
(1925-12-13)December 13, 1925
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died March 24, 2018(2018-03-24) (aged 92)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation Writer
Born John Marsden Ehle, Jr.
(1925-12-13)December 13, 1925
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
(1925-12-13)December 13, 1925
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died March 24, 2018(2018-03-24) (aged 92)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation Writer
Wikipedia
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John Ehle - Wikipedia
October 1, 2025 - John Marsden Ehle Jr. (December 13, 1925 – March 24, 2018) 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". John Ehle was born in Asheville, North Carolina, the oldest ...
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John Ehle
As a high school student competing ... Hill, he wrote plays for the American Adventure series on NBC Radio. John Ehle was the author of seventeen books, eleven fiction and six nonfiction....
Question about John Ehle's Trail of Tears
Contact Barbara Duncan on facebook. She has written and studied ToT extensively and can make excellent recommendations. More on reddit.com
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November 21, 2020John Ehle, Who Rooted His Novels in Appalachia, Is Dead at 92
Have one of his books on hold at the library...thanks, hadn't heard of him before.
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April 28, 2017New Title: The Land-Breakers, by John Ehle
I read this book last summer in an old Hardcover copy I found in my grandma's basement. It was the only book down there that wasn't by Dick Francis. It was my Great-Grandmother's and I just picked it up because I needed something to read. It totally blew me. I was definitely not surprised when I saw that NYRB was reprinting it last fall. More on reddit.com
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January 10, 2015Book recommendation about the Cherokee Removal (Trail of Tears)
Theda Perdue's The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears or her The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents , depending on how emphasis you want to put on primary documents, are probably your best bets. Also, her Cherokee Women is quite good, though its pre-Removal in focus. But if you've got several people if there's several people in the same household and you'd like to give them some reading diversity, that'll help. If Perdue's works seem too brief and you'd like a hefty history, try John Ehle's Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation . More on reddit.com
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December 12, 2014Videos
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The Land Breakers by John Ehle - YouTube
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John Ehle - Trail of Tears (1988) BOOK REVIEW - YouTube
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McLeod Health Patient Story: John Ehle - YouTube
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Plot summary, “The Winter People” by John Ehle in 3 Minutes ...
2021 John Ehle Prize Reading and Discussion
New York Review Books
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John Ehle – New York Review Books
John Ehle (1925-2018) grew up the eldest of five children in the mountains of North Carolina, which would become the setting for many of his novels and several works of nonfiction. Following service in World War II, Ehle received his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he met the playwri
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John Ehle, Who Rooted His Novels in Appalachia, Is Dead at 92 - The New York Times
April 16, 2018 - John Ehle, whose historical novels set in the Appalachian Mountains were acclaimed for the authenticity of the characters’ lives, and whose work for the governor of North Carolina in the 1960s led to significant changes in arts education, died on March 24 at his home in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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John Ehle | Penguin Random House
John Ehle, a sixth-generation North Carolinian, grew up on land once used as hunting grounds by the Cherokee. He is the author of 14 highly acclaimed works, including The Free Men and Lion on the Hearth. His novel The Winter People has been ...
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John Ehle — Press 53
March 24, 2018 - Read Mr. Ehle's obituary from the Asheville Citizen Times · John Ehle (Ee-lee) was the author of seventeen books—eleven fiction and six nonfiction—including Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation.
Amazon
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Amazon.com: John Ehle: books, biography, latest update
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John Ehle | Writer
John Ehle was born on 13 December 1925 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer, known for Winter People (1989), The Journey of August King (1995) and General Electric Theater (1953).
Penland
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John Ehle: Writer and Visionary - Penland School of Craft
March 4, 2025 - Novelist John Ehle has died at age 92. He was the author of 17 books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Winter People” and “The Journey of the August King.” […]
Citizen-Times
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Appalachian novelist John Ehle dies at 92
March 27, 2018 - John Ehle, award-winning author and staunch supporter of the arts, has died at age 92.
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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UNCSA mourns the loss of founder John Ehle - UNCSA
March 27, 2018 - John Ehle, who worked as special assistant to Gov. Terry Sanford in the 60s, first suggested that North Carolina should have a residential school to train young artists. The prolific and award-winning author died Saturday at age 92.
Fantastic Fiction
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John Ehle
A native of Asheville, North Carolina, John Ehle has written seventeen novels and works of nonfiction. His books include The Land Breakers, The Journey of August King, The Winter People, and Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation.
Goodreads
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The Mountain Novels Series by John Ehle
by John Ehle · 4.29 · 1936 Ratings · 254 Reviews · published 1964 · 21 editions · A motley band of characters makes its way into a h…More · Want to Read · Shelving menu · Want to Read · Currently Reading · Read · Add New ShelfDone · Shelving menu ·
The Believer
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A conversation with John Ehle - Believer Magazine
July 20, 2018 - JOHN EHLE: Well, I was born in 1925, so it would be… hell, I don’t know, I used to be very good with numbers, but then I got older and older. When I went to Chapel Hill, I worked for a radio station, and I registered in the Department of Radio and Television, and the first assignment was to write a radio play and bring it in on Monday.
Amazon
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by John Ehle | Sep 22, 1997 · Paperback · Kindle · Audiobook · Other formats: Hardcover, Audio CD · by John Ehle and Linda Spalding | Nov 25, 2014 · Paperback · Kindle · Hardcover · Other format: Mass Market Paperback · by John Ehle | Jul 1, 1998 ·
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Books by John Ehle (Author of Trail of Tears)
John Ehle has 38 books on Goodreads with 29317 ratings. John Ehle’s most popular book is Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation.
Press 53
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The Free Men by John Ehle (Nonfiction) — Press 53
The Free Men by John Ehle (Nonfiction) — Press 53
Carolina Classics Editions ISBN 978-0-9793049-1-0 9 x 6 softcover, 376 pages Originally published 1965 by Harper & Row, New York, NY
Price $19.95
The Paris Review
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Thanksgiving with John Ehle by Valerie Stivers
November 24, 2021 - The Land Breakers, by John Ehle (1925–2018), the first in the author’s “Mountain Novels” series, is a story of America’s founding, set in the mountains of Appalachia and full of the hardscrabble food of the early settlements—wild turkey hen, deer meat, corn pone.
Raleigh News & Observer
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John Ehle, N.C. writer and idea man, changed my life | Raleigh News & Observer
April 8, 2018 - I never met the writer and idea man John Ehle, who died recently, yet he shaped my life’s flight—and that of uncounted others over the last fifty years. He published seventeen books, but his greatest invention was a state that cultivated the talents and curiosities of young people.