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  1. Notable works. News of the World (2016) Notable awards. Governor General's Award (1984) Pat Lowther Award (1985) Gerald Lampert Award (1985) Spouse. Jim Johnson (divorced) Paulette Kay Jiles (aka Paulette K. Jiles, Paulette Jiles-Johnson) (born April 4, 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist .

  2. May 2020 15. “This was the first time I was interviewed about a new book by somebody who hated writing and didn’t read books until recently,” Paulette Jiles wrote me via email on January 30 ...

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  3. News of the World is a 2016 American Western novel by Paulette Jiles . Plot. The book opens in 1870 on the wild border between Texas and Indian Territory, where a 10-year-old girl has been released after four years of captivity.

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  4. Jun 20, 2017 · An Interview with Paulette Jiles. Holly Smith. June 20, 2017. The novelist/poet discusses westerns, accolades, and her admiration for world-building narratives. (In honor of today's release of the paperback version of News of the World, we present an interview we did with author Paulette Jiles last fall.) In her latest novel, News of the World ...

  5. About Paulette. Paulette Jiles is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novels News of the World and Enemy Women. She lives near San Antonio, Texas. Photo by Jill Gann. Paulette’s publisher is Harper Collins.

  6. Quote from Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain: “A powerful, richly realized journey…Captain Kidd belongs in the great pantheon of western characters along with True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn and Lonesome Dove’s Gus and Call’. 1870, North Texas, rainy and cold. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels from town to town giving readings ...

  7. Yet the TNT and agony she drags around come crackling out in images of manic brilliance, controlled by a frequently superb ear." Linda Rogers of Canadian Literature was similarly impressed with Jiles's use of language. Her "images have a life of their own," Rogers explained, and "in visual terms, the poems are like the paintings of Marc Chagall ...

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