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Paulette Jiles | |
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 Jiles at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Paulette Kay Jiles April 4, 1943 Salem, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| Notable works | News of the World (2016) |
| Notable awards | Governor General's Award (1984) Pat Lowther Award (1985) Gerald Lampert Award (1985) |
| Spouse | Jim Johnson (divorced) |
Paulette Kay Jiles (aka Paulette K. Jiles, Paulette Jiles-Johnson) (born April 4, 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
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 for the National Book Award for Fiction. [5]
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