Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Paulette Jiles

Born: April 4, 1943
Died: July 8, 2025 (aged 82)
Bio: Paulette Jiles-Johnson was an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969. She was married to Jim Johnson and had three stepchildren and six grandchildren.
Known for:
- Enemy Women (2002)
- Lighthouse Island: A Novel (2013)
- Stormy Weather (2007)
- North spirit (1995)






