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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 ...
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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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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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 ...
Apr 10, 2009 · By Paulette Jiles 349 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $25.99 Steven Heighton’s most recent books are a novel, “Afterlands,” and a poetry collection, “The Address Book.”
Sep 28, 2016 · Set in post-Civil War Texas, Paulette Jiles’ latest novel, News of the World, tells the story of 71-year-old Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd and his unlikely ward, a 10-year-old girl rescued by the U.S. Army from Kiowa Indian capture. The captain — a veteran of two wars whose printing business has gone bust, whose wife has died, and whose ...
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.
