[VPAAEtal] Gee Library Presents Author Paulette Jiles

[Academic Affairs]

Paulette Jiles

Novelist, Memoirist, Journalist, &  Poet

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

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Sarah H. Northam

Business Reference & Outreach Librarian

James G. Gee Library

Texas A&M University-Commerce

P.O. Box 3011

Commerce, TX  75429-3011

903-886-5714

sarah_northam at tamu-commerce.edu

www.tamu-commerce.edu/library

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