Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. While a student at Syracuse, Jackson became involved with the campus literary magazine, through which she met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, who later became a noted literary critic. [26] . While attending Syracuse, the university's literary magazine published Jackson's first story, "Janice", about a teenager's suicide attempt. [27]

  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.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. After graduating from university, she settled down with her husband in New York and started working as a full time writer. Her stories were published in some of the most well-known American magazines and before long she became a known face in the American literary scene.

  4. Oct 10, 2016 · Jackson and Hyman met at Syracuse University; he sought her out after reading her first published story, “Janice,” in a college magazine and deciding that she was the girl he was going to marry.

  5. Sep 23, 2016 · UPDATED: May 9, 2019 at 11:19 PM CDT. It used to be a source of wonder that Shirley Jackson, author of “The Lottery,” “The Haunting of Hill House” and other horrifying tales, was, in her personal...

    • Katherine A. Powers
  6. Sep 30, 2016 · She married her college boyfriend, who turned out to be the perfect husband for an insecure writer — and perhaps the worst possible husband for an insecure woman.

  7. People also ask

  8. Shirley Jackson met Stanley Edgar Hyman, an American literary critic, during her time at Syracuse University. They fell in love and got married in 1940 [1†] [10†] . The couple had four children [1†] [4†] [10†] .

  1. People also search for