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  1. May 13, 2024 · Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American scientist and educator and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  2. 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.

  3. Oct 10, 2016 · Books. 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...

  4. Shirley Jackson was a popular American novelist and short story writer of twentieth century, known for her forte in mystery and horror fiction. Supernatural, sinister and mysterious elements played significant role in her works. Her notable works include the short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House.

  5. Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories .

  6. Buy Book. From 1943 until her death in 1965, Shirley Jackson published six novels, several short story collections, two memoirs, and countless short pieces for a wide variety of magazines. Her fiction, generally classified as gothic, involves an eery combination of terror, mystery, doom, and death, writing that captivates and haunts the reader ...

  7. Mini Bio. 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.

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