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  1. Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.

  2. Sep 26, 2024 · Shirley Jackson was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her story “The Lottery” (1948). Jackson graduated from Syracuse University in 1940 and married the American literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman.

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  3. Renowned for her horror and mystery writing, Shirley Jackson crafted an innovative style over her two-decade career that earned her a prominent place within modern literature and hundreds of critical accolades.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · (1916-1965) Who Was Shirley Jackson? Writer Shirley Jackson was born in 1916 in California. Among her early works was "The Lottery," the highly controversial and famous short story about a...

  5. Oct 10, 2016 · Zoë Heller on Ruth Franklin’s biography of Shirley Jackson, “A Rather Haunted Life,” which explores one of the twentieth century’s most tortured writers.

  6. The Wall Street Journal said about the book as a whole that it was ‘widely regarded as the greatest haunted-house story ever written’. So she wrote lots of ghost stories? Interestingly, no. Jackson’s novels, while gothic, tend to focus on awkward loners, usually young women or teenage girls.

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  8. In 1959, Jackson’s most popular novel was published: The Haunting of Hill House. The book received high praise, went through several printings, and was made into a successful film four...

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