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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 ...
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 years ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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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.”
Oct 4, 2016 · In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 ...
