Resultado de búsqueda
27 de mar. de 2018 · John Ehle, award-winning author and staunch supporter of the arts, has died at age 92. Ehle wrote 11 novels and six nonfiction books. He has been described as the father of Appalachian literature.
John Ehle wrote 17 books, both fiction and nonfiction, and is a member of the N.C. Literary Hall of Fame. Journal file photo Royal KMM typewriter, ca. 1947 (serial # 3286536).
25 de nov. de 2014 · 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 playwright Paul Green and began writing plays for the NBC radio series American ...
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.Ehle has won a number of literary awards including the Thomas Wolfe Prize, the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction, and the Sir ...
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People ...
In Trail of Tears, Ehle takes a novelistic approach, focusing his narrative on the life of Major Ridge, a Cherokee tribal leader, and lawmaker. We witness Ridge’s birth in the years just before the Revolution and follow his life story from his early teenage years as a warrior, hunter, and athlete to his middle years as a rising star both ...
1 de jul. de 1998 · The Road (Appalachian Echoes Fiction) Paperback – July 1, 1998. "In The Road John Ehle's skill as a storyteller brings an early episode of road building in the North Carolina mountains to rich and vivid life. Hardship and humor, suffering and dreams are the balance for survival in a landscape that makes harsh demands on its intruders.
