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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 ...
- American
- University of Missouri–Kansas City
- Jim Johnson (divorced)
- News of the World (2016)
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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Last year Jiles was so entertained by the trailer for the 2017 film The Death of Stalin that she felt compelled to write a blog post recommending that her readers stream the movie, which she hadn ...
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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Nov 11, 2008 · Jiles, Paulette. Paulette Jiles, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist (b at Salem, Mo 1943). A graduate, in Spanish literature, of the University of Illinois, Paulette Jiles came to Canada in 1969. After a group of her poems appeared in Mindscapes (1971), she published Waterloo Express (1973) before moving to the North for 10 years to work as ...
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 ...
Apr 10, 2009 · Paulette Jiles has set that mystery and otherness at the core of a gripping, deeply relevant book. THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING. By Paulette Jiles. 349 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $25. ...
