Shirley Jackson
Author
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Blood, Guts and Brains!
...Mr. Stoker's master work on one chilling level or another might include such names as Richard Matheson, Robert McCammon, Dean Koontz, Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, and yes, Stephen King. This, I hope, has taken us a long way from the...
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Hell House (novel)
...both mental and physical. Matheson's novel has significant similarities with the earlier novel The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson, though rendered with much more violence and sexual imagery. The novel was later made as a...
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Shirley Jackson
...Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson. She is best known for "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic small-town America. In her critical biography of Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes...
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Richard Matheson
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Shirley Jackson. Online memorial and memory book.
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Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916, San Francisco, California - August 8, 1965, Bennington, Vermont) was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson.
She is best known for her acclaimed short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, small town America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse."
In the July 22, 1948 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle Jackson offered the following in response to persistent queries from her readers about her intentions:
:Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, has written in his introduction to a posthumous anthology of her short stories that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements." That she thought it meant something, and something subversive, moreover, she revealed in her response to the Union of South Africa's banning of "The Lottery": "She felt," Hyman says, "that they at least understood."
- Birth Date:
- December 14, 1916
- Birthplace:
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Death Date:
- August 08, 1965
- Place of Death:
- Bennington, Vermont, United States
- Occupation:
- Author, Novelist
- Influenced:
- Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman
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