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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson, a writer of horror and humour, was born on December 14th, 1916 and passed away during the summer of 1965. Her first novel, “The Road Through the Wall” (1948) was set in the same suburb she spent her early years; Burlingame, San Francisco, California. In 1934 her family moved to Rochester, New York. She dropped out of the University of Rochester and three years later, Jackson enrolled into Syracuse, University where she met husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. As an editorial assistant for The New Republic he helped her publish “My Life with R.H Macy” (1941) as her first nationally published story. Jackson is most famous for writing “The Lottery”, a short story of communal savagery, and “The Haunting of Hill House”, a highly acclaimed horror novel.

Author Unknown “Jackson, Shirley” Literary Encyclopedia 2005/11/15 Literary Reference Center. Seneca Libraries. November 18, 2007
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Shirley Jackson was born to father Leslie H. Jackson and mother Geraldine Bugee in San Francisco in 1919. She studied in Rochester New York and Syracuse University before she began her career as a writer. Her first short stories “My Life wit R.H Macy” and “After you, My Dear Alphonse” were published before she had her children Joanne, Sarah, and Barry with her husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. 1948 was a big year for Jackson as she published five separate pieces including the famous novel The Road Through the Wall and the short story “The Lottery”. Other more recognized works by Jackson include Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, House, and We Have Always Lived in a Castle, all of which deal with Jackson’s interest in the paranormal. Her two-part autobiographical series entitled Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons is an anthology humourous tales based on her experiences as a housewife and mother.

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