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Quick Overview
Shirley Jackson was born on. Dec. 14, 1916 in San Francisco, Calif., U.S. She died. on Aug. 8, 1965, in North Bennington, Vt.), Jackson is rmembered as an American novelist and short-story writer whose fame iespecially rests on her story "The Lottery" (1948).
"Jackson, Shirley (Hardie)" Britannica Online.
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[Accessed 27 October 1998].
Comments: I vividly recall the first time I read "the Lottery."
Novels
Her
Life
Demons
(1957) are witty and humorous fictionalized memoirs about their life with
their four children. Their light, comic tone contrasts sharply with the
dark pessimism of Jackson's other works, whose general theme is the presence
of evil and chaos just beneath the surface of ordinary, everyday life.
"The Lottery," a chilling tale whose meaning has been much debated, provoked
widespread public outrage when it was first published in The New Yorker
in
1948. Jackson's six finished novels, especially The Haunting of Hill House
(1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), further established
her reputation as a master of gothic horror and psychological suspense
"Jackson,
Shirley (Hardie)" Britannica Online.
<http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=micro/298/44.html>
[Accessed 27 October 1998].