Poet and author Paulette Jiles, 82, died on July 8 in San Antonio. She recently posted on her blog that she was diagnosed with “some kind of non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.” Jiles’s literary output included poetry, memoirs, Westerns, and science fiction. She was the first American to receive Canada’s Governor General’s Award for her poetry collection Celestial Navigation and her 2016 novel, News of the World, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
