{"id":7229,"date":"2025-07-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:43:38","slug":"paulette-jiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/07\/23\/paulette-jiles\/","title":{"rendered":"In Her Own Words: Paulette Jiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paulette Jiles, American poet and novelist, died July 9 at the age of 82 from gastric issues. She is best known for her National Book Award finalist, <em>News of the World<\/em>, which was our Texas Center for the Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/greatreadtexas2017\">Texas Great Read in 2017<\/a>, and later made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a more in-depth obituary, check out this one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/arts-entertainment\/remembering-my-friend-paulette-jiles\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the titles by Paulette Jiles in the TBP collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>ENEMY WOMEN (DB 54327, BR 14191)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>STORMY WEATHER (DB 66134)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>COLOR OF LIGHTNING (DB 69626)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NEWS OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL (DB 86668, BR 21741)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SIMON THE FIDDLER (DB 102013)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CHENNEVILLE: A NOVEL OF MURDER, LOSS, AND VENGEANCE (DB 119430)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulette Jiles, American poet and novelist, died July 9 at the age of 82 from gastric issues. She is best known for her National Book Award finalist, News of the World, which was our Texas Center for the Book Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/07\/23\/paulette-jiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,159,347,222,37,23,259],"tags":[1014,1013,4,9,935],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books-into-film","category-center-for-the-book","category-news-announcements","category-readers-advisory-2","category-spotlight-on-texas-books","category-texas","tag-in-her-own-words","tag-paulette-jiles","tag-reader-advisory","tag-readers-advisory","tag-texas-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}