<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Century;
panose-1:2 4 6 4 5 5 5 2 3 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Century;
panose-1:2 4 6 4 5 5 5 2 3 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Book Antiqua";
panose-1:2 4 6 2 5 3 5 3 3 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Paulette Jiles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Novelist, Memoirist,
Journalist, & Poet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Century","serif";color:#333333'>Award winning
and best selling writer Paulette Jiles will visit the campus of Texas A&M
University - Commerce on April 15, 2010 to help celebrate National Library
Week. Paulette will autograph books at the campus bookstore in the Sam Rayburn
Student Center from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. She will discuss her writing and
read excerpts of her work from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the James G. Gee Library,
followed by an autograph signing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century","serif";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Century","serif";color:#333333'>Paulette
Jiles started her career in Canada, where she won several awards for her poetry,
including the prestigious Governor General’s Award in 1985 for “Celestial
Navigation”. In addition to her poetry collections she has
published a detective novel, a science fiction novel, short stories, radio
plays, and memoirs. Her most recent acclaim has come from her historical
novels. “Enemy Women” won the Willa Cather Award for historical fiction in
2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century","serif";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Century","serif"'>Born
in Salem, Missouri, she grew up in the Ozarks and obtained a B.A. in Spanish
literature from the University of Missouri. Jiles lived in the Canary Islands
and North Africa before arriving in Canada in 1969. She currently makes her
home in Texas.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#632423'>dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>Sarah H. Northam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>Business Reference & Outreach Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>James G. Gee Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>Texas A&M University-Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>P.O. Box 3011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>Commerce, TX 75429-3011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>903-886-5714<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>sarah_northam@tamu-commerce.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:#943634'>www.tamu-commerce.edu/library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#632423'>ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>