Kevin S. Giles (born 1952) is an American journalist and author whose books are set in his native western

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

. He was born and raised in western Montana. Two of his books take place in his hometown of

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: a novel, "Summer of the Black Chevy" (2015) and the nonfiction work, "Jerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance." (2005) In October 2016, Giles published "One Woman Against War: The

Jeannette Rankin Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States in 1917. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representat ...

Story," a biography of the first woman elected to the

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. It is an expanded edition of his 1980 Rankin biography, "Flight of the Dove." Rankin was elected in 1916 when women in many states did not have the right to vote. She had led a post-suffrage drive to organize voting in Montana, her home state, and Montana in 1914 joined a bloc of western states that enfranchised women at the polls. "Flight of the Dove," published by Touchstone Press in Portland, Oregon, sold out of its first printing. As a journalist, Giles has been a reporter, editor and designer at six daily newspapers, including three in Montana. He also worked for ''The Courier Mail'' in

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, Queensland, Australia, and North Dakota's ''

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'' where he was chief editor from 1988 to 1997. Giles was an editor, photographer and staff writer at the ''

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'' in Minneapolis-St. Paul until 2018.

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