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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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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 ...
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.
Sep 12, 2023 · Beth Kanell. “This epic quest with its strands of love and loss frames an American exploration of family, grief, honor, and deep humanity in an unforgettable fashion.”. The War Between the States ripped families apart and devoured their security, especially south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In Chenneville, Paulette Jiles plunges into the ...
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.”
For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair.
