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- Jackson, perhaps inevitably, struggled with her mental health and eventually developed agoraphobia. She put on weight, chain smoked and in 1965 she died suddenly of complications related to a heart condition, aged 48.
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Oct 10, 2016 · A torrent of mail arrived at The New Yorker in the wake of Shirley Jackson’s short story—the most the magazine had ever received in response to a work of fiction.
- She was a California girl. Jackson is often associated with New England writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, her American Gothic predecessor. She lived in North Bennington, Vermont, for most of her adult life—in fact, some people believe it’s the setting for “The Lottery.”
- Her family believed in Christian Science. Jackson’s maternal grandmother, who lived with the Jacksons while she was growing up, was a Christian Science faith healer.
- She flunked out of college. The writer responsible for one of the defining stories of her era was kicked out of the University of Rochester after her sophomore year.
- Her parents didn’t attend her wedding. Neither did Hyman’s. Though he declared himself a “militant atheist” as a teenager, he was brought up in a traditional Jewish household, and his parents didn’t approve of him marrying outside the faith.
Mar 3, 2017 · Shirley Jackson felt she was constantly on the verge of drawing that fatal lot. She wrote prolifically while raising four children under the gaze of a philandering husband and a domineering mother. She had the courage to embark upon a “mixed marriage”—Hyman was Jewish, from Brooklyn—despite her wealthy WASP parents’ objections.
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]
Jul 31, 2015 · Though she was a queen of gothic fiction and a hugely controversial figure in her native America, she has curiously been all but ignored on this side of the Atlantic – but the situation could be...
Oct 30, 2020 · Jackson, perhaps inevitably, struggled with her mental health and eventually developed agoraphobia. She put on weight, chain smoked and in 1965 she died suddenly of complications related to a...
Dec 13, 2021 · Soon after this return to literary prominence, Ruth Franklin published a new, critically acclaimed biography of the author entitled Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016).
