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Sep 30, 2016 · Ruth Franklin's biography of writer Shirley Jackson ('The Lottery,' 'The Haunting of Hill House') casts a spell.
- Scott Bradfield
Jackson was unhappy in her classes there, [23][2] and took a year-long hiatus from her studies before transferring to Syracuse University, where she flourished both creatively and socially. [24] Here she received her bachelor's degree in journalism. [25]
Shirley Ann Jackson is an American scientist and educator and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jackson helped develop technologies that made communication faster and easier and was an advocate for minority representation in academia,
- Tara Ramanathan
During the last decade of her life Jackson often delivered a prepared talk about her sudden notoriety as a writer of fiction. In honor of her centennial, we present that speech, “Biography of a Story,” as our Story of the Week selection.
Sep 25, 2024 · In June 1943, Patricia Highsmith tagged along with a friend on a social call to the Greenwich Village apartment of Stanley Edgar Hyman and his wife, Shirley Jackson. Highsmith’s interest was mostly in Hyman, whose employer, the New Yorker, had a frustrating habit of rejecting her story submissions, but the brief description of the event she ...
- Ashley Lawson
Jul 14, 2021 · The newly published "Letters of Shirley Jackson" proves that the great, complicated author of "The Lottery" couldn't tell a dull story if she tried.
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Dec 30, 1996 · A generation ago, almost every anthology of notable American short stories included Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” It was the kind of story that established its own genre--in this case ...
