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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 ...
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 ...
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.”
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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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 ...
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 ...
