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John Ehle
John Ehle and wife Rosemary Harris reside in Winston-Salem, Penland and New York City, and they have one daughter, actress Jennifer Ehle. He has received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for Southern Fiction, and he is a five-time winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. He has also received the Mayflower Award, the Governor's Award for Meritorious Service and the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, and he holds honorary doctorates from UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Asheville, the UNC School of the Arts and Berea College.
Books by John Ehle The Changing of the Guard
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The oldest of five children, John Ehle was raised in Asheville, where his father was an insurance company division director. Both of his parents were born in the Appalachian Mountains, his mother from four generations of mountain people. It is from that branch of his family that Ehle claims to inherit his gift for storytelling. Following service in World War II as a rifleman, Ehle earned his B.A. and M.A. 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 says that he still writes works that are meant to be read aloud. During his student years at Chapel Hill, he wrote plays for the American Adventure series on NBC Radio. 