# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ehle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:08:09.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ehle"
name: "John Ehle"
slug: "john-ehle"
description: "John Marsden Ehle Jr. 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\"."
tagline: "American writer (1925-2018)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/c0nD0PdR46Kq4In0yKud83B0k3m.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-12-13"
deathDate: "2018-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.93
  momentum:             2.975862163571017
  historical:           4.007077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251188/"
    handle:    "nm0251188"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جون إيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehle"
    title: "John Ehle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehle"
    title: "John Ehle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6231502"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233293"
    title: "John Ehle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations