Paulette Jiles

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] Since her divorce in 2003, Jiles has lived on a 36-acre ranch near Utopia, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.[4]

Her 2016 novel News of the World was a finalist[2] for the National Book Award for Fiction.

• 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: Sojourns 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)

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