Move Over, Mountain
50th Anniversary Edition
Published on 24. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-9793049-8-9 (ISBN)
Description
When first published in 1957, "Move Over, Mountain" was considered to be the first book written by a white novelist that portrayed African-Americans without stereotype. It received positive reviews from several major publications, but was shunned by segregated bookstores and libraries. There was only one US printing of "Move Over, Mountain." The following year it was published by Hodder and Stoughton of London, England. A story of personal and social struggle, the New York Times said of John Ehle in 1957, "It is quite obvious that he writes from a deep knowledge of his subject, and an understanding of technique rare in a first novelist."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9793049-8-9 (9780979304989)
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Person
JOHN EHLE (Ee-lee, December 13, 1925 - March 24, 2018) was the author of eleven novels and six nonfiction books. He won numerous literary awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, the Lillian Smith Award for Southern Fiction, the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, which he earned five times-more than any other writer to date-and the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. His books have been translated into French, German, Swedish, Czech, Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese. Following service in World War II, Ehle earned his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He taught at the university for ten years before joining the staff of Governor Terry Sanford in 1962. He resigned from the governor's staff in 1964 to write The Free Men, a nonfiction account of the civil rights movement that took place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during 1963-64. Ehle later served on the White House Group for Domestic Affairs and was appointed to the First National Council of the Humanities. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Berea College, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.John Ehle was married for fifty years to actress Rosemary Harris. The two divide their time between their homes in Winston-Salem and Penland, North Carolina, New York City, New York, and London, England. They have one daughter, actress Jennifer Ehle.