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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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