Paulette Jiles
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Paulette Jiles (aka Paulette K. Jiles, Paulette Jiles-Johnson) (born 4 April 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
Personal life[]
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 stations with indigenous peoples in the far north of Ontario and Quebec for the next 10 years.[3] In the process, she learned the Ojibwe language spoken by the Anishinaabeg peoples in Ontario and elsewhere.[2]
After marrying Jim Johnson, she moved with him to San Antonio in 1991.[4] After several years of travel, including living in Mexico, the couple resettled in San Antonio in 1995, buying a house in the historical district. [2] After her divorce in 2003, Jiles has lived on a 36-acre ranch near Utopia, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.[4]
Writing career[]
Her 2016 novel News of the World was a finalist[2] for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Selected bibliography[]
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- Waterloo Express (1973)
- Celestial Navigation (1984, winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award)
- The Golden Hawks (Where We Live) (1985)
- Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola (1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
- The Late Great Human Road Show (1986, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
- The Jesse James Poems (1988)
- Blackwater (1988)
- Song to the Rising Sun (1989)
- Cousins (1992)
- Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (1995)
- North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps (1995)
- Enemy Women (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
- Stormy Weather (2007)
- The Color of Lightning (2009)
- Lighthouse Island (2013)
- News of the World (2016)
- Simon the Fiddler (2020)
References[]
- ^ "October 2016 Archives". UMKC Alumni. UMKC Alumni Association. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Jiles, Paulette. "Author's Page". amazon.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ Salaman, Jeff. "True Western". texasmonthly.com. Texas Monthly. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cook-Monroe, Nancy. "Former San Antonian Paulette Jiles Nominated for National Book Award". The Rivard Report. (therivardreport.com). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
External links[]
Her blog is Paulette Jiles, Author. <accessdate=7 October 2017>
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