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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 .
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
She lives with her husband in San Antonio, Texas. Enemy Women is her first novel. Enemy Women tells the survival story of eighteen-year-old Adair Colley who is caged with the criminal and the deranged in a filthy women's prison in St. Louis during the Civil War.
Jun 20, 2017 · In her latest novel, News of the World, Paulette Jiles masterfully evokes the American West, conjures the memorable character Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd , and tackles the complexity of love forged under duress. The response from critics and readers alike has been overwhelmingly positive.
Paulette Jiles, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist (b at Salem, Mo – in the Missouri Ozarks. 1943) was raised in small towns in both south and central Missouri, Jiles attended three different high schools, and graduated (1968) from the University of Missouri (Kansas City) in Romance Languages.
Paulette Jiles at her home, in Utopia, on March 20, 2020. Photograph by Jeff Wilson J iles has on occasion been a woman of confrontation, but the targets of her rancor have changed over the...
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PERSONAL: Born April 4, 1943, in Salem, MO; immigrated to Canada; married. Education: University of Missouri, B.A., 1969.