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  1. Oct 10, 2016 · The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson. A new biography explores one of the twentieth century’s most tortured writers. By Zoë Heller. October 10, 2016. A new biography argues that Jackson’s books...

  2. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:14. The Haunting (1963) 1 Video. 1 Photo. Shirley Jackson was a horror and mystery writer born in San Francisco, California in 1916.

  3. Genre. Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories. edit data. Shirley Jackson 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 Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

  4. Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, 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.”

  5. Shirley Jackson was a horror and mystery writer born in San Francisco, California in 1916. She is best remembered for her unsettling novel of. paranoia and the supernatural, 'The Haunting of Hill House' (1959) and. her terrifying short story 'The Lottery' (1948), a horror tale rife.

  6. Feb 6, 2019 · Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction whose works influenced a generation of genre writers who came after her. She was recognized for wryly humorous accounts of family life, and more significantly, sharply told stories and novels of psychological terror.

  7. Aug 3, 2015 · Shirley Jackson is known to countless American schoolchildren today primarily for one story: “ The Lottery ,” a terrifying portrait of the brutality within us, which, when it first appeared in...

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