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Early life. Jackson was born December 14, 1916, [11][12] in San Francisco, California, to Leslie Jackson and his wife Geraldine (née Bugby). [13][b] Jackson was raised in Burlingame, California, an affluent suburb of San Francisco, where her family resided in a two-story home located at 1609 Forest View Road. [15]
Birthday: December 14, 1916 (Sagittarius) Born In: San Francisco, California, United States. Novelists #119. Short Story Writers #17. Writers #105. Quick Facts. Also Known As: Shirley Hardie Jackson. Died At Age: 48. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Stanley Edgar Hyman. father: Leslie H. Jackson. mother: Geraldine B. Jackson. siblings: Barry H. Jackson.
- Jackson's Relationship with Her Mother Was Complicated.
- She Kept Multiple Diaries — in Multiple Voices.
- She Treated Her Moods Like Personas, and Even Named them.
- Jackson's Husband Decided to Marry Her After Reading Her Short Story, "Janice."
- Hyman's Infidelities Made Jackson Physically Ill.
- Jackson Was A Practicing Witch.
- She Found Motherhood Inspiring.
- Jackson Kept A Scrapbook of Mean Letters.
- She May Have Foreseen Her Own death.
From the time she was a young child to her death — she outlived both of her parents — Shirley Jackson was ever at odds with her mother. Whether her mom disagreed with the way she dressed or combed her hair, her interest in the occult or her curiosity in communism, her choice in career and her eventual husband, Jackson's mother, Geraldine, would spe...
Many writers keep diariesthroughout their lives, and Jackson is no exception, but they style in which she did it is unusual. Instead of keeping one journal, Jackson wrote in multiple diaries simultaneously, sometimes even in the same day. In one diary, Jackson wrote in the "aw-shucks tone of an all-American girl," explains Franklin, frequently comm...
Not only did Jackson keep multiple diaries, each with their own style and voice, but she also kept her moods separated and distinct from one another, giving them each a persona of their own. Much like her novel The Bird's Nest, a book featuring a woman's mind fracturing into multiple personalities, Jackson's own moods, in her mind anyways, were dis...
Shirley Jackson married writer and literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman in 1940, two years after meeting at Syracuse where they were both enrolled. There marriage was punctuated with both unbridled love and support for one another, as well as constant conflict over Hyman's frequent infidelities. But despite all of the other women in and out of Hyman...
Hyman told Jackson, "you have forever spoiled me for other girls," but despite those words, Hyman frequently partook in other women's affections — including their next-door neighbors' and Shirley's own friends. Hyman was no stranger to infidelity, and did nothing to hide it, either. In fact, the writer and eventual husband would share his dalliance...
"Miss Jackson writes not with a pen but with a broomstick." An often quoted line about Jackson's writing, this quib sheds a lot of light about the woman behind the ghost stories. Not only did her fiction draw upon the supernatural, but so did her beliefs in real life, too. After discovering Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Boughin college and w...
While many other female authors of her time — and, more often, the wives of male authors — stayed away from more traditional home and family models, abstaining from having children of their own, Jackson found her own motherhood to be a great source of inspiration. Not only did motherhood inform her popular short stories about children and home life...
When "The Lottery" was published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers' reactions stunned both Jackson and the publication's editors. While it became an almost instant critical success, commercially, feelings were very mixed. Some readers found the story to be fascinating and intriguing, while others — many, many others — were so disturbed and outrage...
Shirley Jackson died of heart failure in her sleep, while napping the upstairs bedroom of her home in North Bennington, at the age of 48. Though she had struggled with health issues for the latter part of her life, her death was unexpected — at least, to everyone except for Jackson, who may have sensed it coming on. "And, in the very last days of h...
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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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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...
Born on December 14, 1916, in San Francisco, California; died on August 8, 1965, in North Bennington, Vermont; daughter of Leslie Jackson and Geraldine (Bugbee) Jackson; attended Syracuse University; married Stanley Edgar Hyman (a critic), on August 13, 1940; children: Laurence Hyman (b. 1942); Joanne Hyman (b.
Jackson, Shirley. Entry updated 12 December 2022. Tagged: Author. (1916-1965) US author of short stories and novels, married from 1940 until her death to the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman (1919-1970). None of her fiction is sf in any orthodox sense [see her entry in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below].
