 Two of his eleven novels, "The Winter People" and "The Journey of August King", have been adapted as films.Among his six works of non-fiction is the 1965 book, "The Free Men", which is a first-person chronicle of the desegregation struggle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.Ehle was married to English actress Rosemary Harris and was the father of actress Jennifer Ehle.