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Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson American novels and short-story writer Shirley Jackson, c. 1940s.

Shirley Jackson

American author
Also known as: Shirley Hardie Jackson
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Shirley Jackson (born December 14, 1916, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died August 8, 1965, North Bennington, Vermont) 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. They settled in North Bennington in 1945. Life Among the Savages (1953) and Raising Demons (1957) are witty and humorous fictionalized memoirs about their life with their four...

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