Background
Ehle, John Marsden was born on December 13, 1925 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Son of John M. and Gladys (Starnes) Ehle.
(Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle's masterful Ap...)
Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle's masterful Appalachian series that traces the King family from The Land Breakers in 1779, as the first white settlers in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, through the Great Depression in Last One Home. Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird), says John Ehle "is our foremost writer of historical fiction." John Ehle's sense of place, his ear for language, and his ability to shape characters with love and a gentle sense of humor make Last One Home one of the great novels of all time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982441681/?tag=2022091-20
(Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runa...)
Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave in 1810, August King faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide between turning the girl in for a reward or risking his life to help her. Reprint. Movie tie-in.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786880317/?tag=2022091-20
( Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the year...)
Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world—one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity—and begin to make a world of their own. Mooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others. John Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590177630/?tag=2022091-20
(John Ehle's classic civil war novel, Tome of Drums, retur...)
John Ehle's classic civil war novel, Tome of Drums, returns to print as a Press 53 Classic. Book three in his seven-book Appalachian series. Borden Deal said: "There have been many books about the Civil War; none of them, with the exception of The Red Badge of Courage, have comes close to the dusty, bloody, grinding truth that John Ehle writes about. Time of Drums is not only the story of men launched into a war with uncertain loyalties, but more important, it continues the Wright saga that John Ehle began with The Land Breakers and promises to expand into one of the great fictional sagas of American history."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941209068/?tag=2022091-20
(This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experien...)
This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, 'The Free Men' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, 'Daily Tar Heel' editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979304911/?tag=2022091-20
Ehle, John Marsden was born on December 13, 1925 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Son of John M. and Gladys (Starnes) Ehle.
Bachelor, U. North Carolina, 1949; Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), North Carolina School Arts, 1981; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Berea College, 1986; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, Asheville, 1987; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990.
Faculty, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1951-1963; special assistant to, Governor Terry Sanford, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1963-1964; program officer, Ford Foundation, New York City, 1964-1965. Special consultant Duke U., 1976-1980. Co-founder North Carolina Governor's School, North Carolina School Arts, North Carolina School Science and Mathematics.
( Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the year...)
(Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle's masterful Ap...)
(Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runa...)
(While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains ...)
(This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experien...)
(When first published in 1957, "Move Over, Mountain" was c...)
(John Ehle's classic civil war novel, Tome of Drums, retur...)
(Contains: The Sea Flower; The Man; A Ship Called Hope; Th...)
(Food memoir by North Carolina Author.)
(The story of Rev. James A. Gusweller and hhis crusade on ...)
(Fiction)
Active White House Group for Domestic Affairs, 1964-1966, National Council Humanities, 1966-1970. Member Executive Committee National Book Committee, New York City, 1972-1975, North Carolina School Arts Foundation, Winston-Salem, 1970-1975. Member awards commission State of North Carolina, 1982-1993, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Winston-Salem, 1985-1989.
With Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors League, Century Club (New York City).
Married Gail Oliver, August 30, 1952 (divorced April 1967). Married Rosemary Harris, October 22, 1967. 1 child, Jennifer Anne.