Biography of shirley jackson
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Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson, a middle-class couple. When she was a teenager, her family moved to Rochester, New York, where Jackson graduated from Brighton High School in She attended the University of Rochester briefly, but then dropped out and ultimately received her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University. At Syracuse University, Jackson worked on the school newspaper, The Spectre, during which she met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman.
After graduation, Jackson married Hyman and they moved to a rural area in Vermont, where they had kvartet children. Jackson's novel Life Among the Savages () is a humorous konto of her experiences as a mother and wife. Jackson's other memoir fryst vatten Raising Demons (). Some of her other works are semi-autobiographical, such as "My Life with R. H. Macy."
The story that launched Jackson into the public eye was "The Lotter
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A new biography argues that Jackson’s books should be seen as ration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source: Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress (House)
Here’s how not to be taken seriously as a woman writer: Use demons and ghosts and other gothic paraphernalia in your fiction. Describe yourself publicly as “a practicing amateur witch” and boast about the hexes you have placed on prominent publishers. Contribute comic essays to women’s magazines about your hectic life as a housewife and mother.
Shirley Jackson did all of these things, and, during her lifetime, was largely dismissed as a talented purveyor of high-toned horror stories—“Virginia Werewoolf,” as one critic put it. For most of the fifty-one years since her death, that reputation has stuck. Today, “The Lottery,” her story of ritual human sacrifice in a New England village (first published in this magazine, in ), has become a staple of eighth-grade reading lists, and her novel “The Haunting of Hill House” () is oft
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Shirley Jackson, , one of the most brilliant and influential authors of the twentieth century, is widely acclaimed for her stories and novels of the supernatural, including the well-known short story “The Lottery” and the best-selling novel “The Haunting of Hill House.”
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, , and spent her childhood in nearby Burlingame, California, where she began writing poetry and short stories as a young teenager. Her family moved East when she was seventeen, and she attended the University of Rochester. After a year, in , she withdrew and spent a year at home practicing writing, producing a minimum of a thousand words a day.
She entered Syracuse University in , where she published her first story, “Janice,” and was soon appointed fiction editor of the campus humor magazine. After winning a poetry contest at Syracuse she met her future husband, young aspiring literary critic St