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Paulette Kay Jiles was born in 1943 in Salem, Missouri. She attended college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, graduating in 1968 [1] with a major in Romance Languages. [2] Jiles moved to Toronto, Canada in 1969, where she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [2] and, subsequently, helped set up native language, FM radio ...
Sep 27, 2023 · Paulette Jiles is another author who writes terrific historical fiction, focusing on the Civil War era. Jiles’ latest novel, Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance, begins as the Civil War is ending. The protagonist, Union Army First Lieutenant John Chenneville, is recovering from a head injury sustained following an explosion in ...
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. Kiowa raiders had killed her family and taken her hostage, eventually raising her as one of their own with the Kiowa name Cicada. The girl is entrusted to freedman Britt Johnson, who then hands ...
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Last year Jiles was so entertained by the trailer for the 2017 film The Death of Stalin that she felt compelled to write a blog post recommending that her readers stream the movie, which she hadn ...
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T his month William Morrow will publish News of the World, the sixth novel by Paulette Jiles, a 73-year-old poet, novelist, memoirist, and resident of the Hill Country town of Utopia.Set in Texas ...
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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 ...
Oct 12, 2016 · Paulette Jiles was a poet before she became a novelist. And it certainly shows. Her new novel, the 2016 National Book Award nominee “News of the World,” has invited comparisons with both ...
