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An Unforgettable Literary Mama: A Profile of Shirley Jackson
From until her death in , Shirley Jackson published six novels, several short story collections, two memoirs, and countless short pieces for a wide variety of magazines. Her fiction, generally classified as gothic, involves an eery combination of terror, mystery, doom, and death, writing that captivates and haunts the reader long after the final words. Notably, Jackson&#;s work is strongly rooted in place, often with settings in small towns featuring a house with an ominous past, one that inevitably bleeds into the present. The fascination with Jackson&#;s work has endured over the decades, and her classic short story &#;The Lottery,&#; originally published in The New Yorker under much controversy, is required reading for most American high school students. Recent renewed interest in her writing has led to the popular Netflix adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House and a Hulu biopic, Shirley, focusing on the time per
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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 , 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, in San Francisco, California. In , she attended Syracuse University where she published her first short story, “Janice,” and became an editor for
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I have a lot of literary kindred spirits, most of them women. They are authors who are not necessarily similar to me in writing style or subject matter, but for whom I feel a kind of emotional connection. These are women writers whom I wish I could have over for kaffe, to pick their brains, or at least hear their stories firsthand. They are my friends, even though we are separated by layers of time and space. Shirley Jackson, the horror writer best known for her short story “The Lottery” and the novel, The Haunting of Hill House, fryst vatten one of these friends for me. Regarded as merely “pop” genre fiction during her time, Jackson’s work fryst vatten beginning to be regarded for its literary value and its feminist themes – a new perspective that, in my opinion, is long overdue.
I had read “The Lottery” in school, but my first real introduction to Jackson was reading her posthumously published collection of stories and essays, Let Me Tell You. In that work, the reader has the enskild delight o