John Ehle

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 ...

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.” […]

April 16, 2018 - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/obituaries/john-ehle-who-rooted-novels-in-appalachia-is-dead-at-92.html

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.

May 15, 2024 - NCSSM founder John Ehle died on March 24 at the age of 92.

March 27, 2018 - John Ehle, award-winning author and staunch supporter of the arts, has died at age 92.

Writer: Winter People. 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).

Writer: Winter People. 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).

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 made into a major motion picture.

National Edowment for the Humanities. National Federation for the Arts and Humanities. North Carolina. Governor (1961-1965 : Sanford) North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. North Carolina School of the Arts. Penland School of Crafts. Ehle family. Ehle, John, 1925- Harris, Rosemary.

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.

August 10, 2022 - John Ehle, author of seventeen books including the classic Land Breakers series, has died at the age of ninety-two.

John Ehle died on March 24th, 2018 at the age of 92 in Winston-Salem (city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States).

March 29, 2018 - He was 92.A statement from school Chancellor Lindsay Bierman said Ehle died Saturday at his Winston-Salem home with his wife, actress Rosemary Harris, and daughter Jennifer Ehle at his side.

Following service in World War II as a rifleman, Ehle earned his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also taught for ten years. As a high school student competing in debate tournaments, he became interested in writing, and throughout his career always claimed he wrote works that were meant to be read aloud. During his student years at Chapel 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.

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 ...