Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles aka Paulette K. Jiles (born 4 April 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. She attended college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, graduating in 1968 with a major in Romance Languages. Jiles moved to Toronto, Can
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Paulette Jiles aka Paulette K. Jiles (born 4 April 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. She attended college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, graduating in 1968 with a major in Romance Languages. Jiles moved to Toronto, Canada in 1969, where she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 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. Her 2016 novel News of the World was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Some of her works include; The Jesse James Poems (1988). Blackwater (1988). Song to the Rising Sun (1989). Cousins (1992).Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (1995.
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