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Where to Start With Shirley Jackson
A master of Gothic mystery and horror, Shirley Jackson’s novels and short stories still resonate with readers more than fifty years after her death, due in part to her uncanny ability to pierce the outward polite facade of her characters to reveal the true, terrifying side of humanity that lurks underneath. Generations of readers have been left speechless and spellbound by the horror and tragedy of The Haunting of Hill House, one of the greatest ghost stories ever written. Her short story “The Lottery” has remained a staple of short story anthologies since it was first published in 1948, and it is probably the most well-known American short story of the 20th century. Today we look back on her life and her successes in honor of her birthday.
Shirley Hardie Jackson was born December 14, 1916 in San Francisco, California. In 1937, she attended Syracuse University where she published her first short story, “Janice,” and became
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Shirley Jackson
American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)
This article is about the American writer. For the physicist and former president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, see Shirley Ann Jackson.
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.
Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman.[8] After they graduated, the couple moved to New York City and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town". The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the
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In twentieth century Ireland, Mrs. Corn and Kathy help take care of a baby at Mrs. Archer’s house when an old man selling shoelaces shows up at the front door. Mrs. Archer feels sympathetic and goes to retrieve a quarter, and the old man suddenly collapses at her doorstep. The women argue about whether the man is drunk or unsafe to have around the baby. Mrs. Archer tells them to bring a chair, but not the good one. Kathy insists that the man is just starving, and Mrs. Archer cooks up some eggs for him. They bring him a glass of sherry and continue to judge and talk about him right in front of his face. Mrs. Archer frets over what her husband might think if he hears of this incident, but Kathy brushes off her worries. Mrs. Archer is hesitant to give the man the pie she saved for dinner but concedes. She sets the table and then redoes it to put a spread-out paper bag underneath the man's plate. The women serve him the meal, and he introduces himself as John O’Flaherty. He also tells t