Her letters are filled with tartly funny observations. "She could be sharp and aggressive with fey Bennington girls and salesclerks and people who interrupted her writing. "The persona that Jackson presented to the world was powerful, witty, even imposing," wrote Zoë Heller in the New Yorker. In 1959, she published The Haunting of Hill House, a supernatural horror novel widely considered to be one of the best ghost stories ever written. She continued to publish numerous short stories in literary journals and magazines throughout the 1950s, some of which were assembled and reissued in her 1953 memoir Life Among the Savages. Īfter publishing her debut novel The Road Through the Wall (1948), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood in California, Jackson gained significant public attention for her short story " The Lottery", which presents the sinister underside of a bucolic American village. The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town".
Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.īorn in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (Decem– August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.
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