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  1. 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.”

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. August 08, 1965. 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.

  6. 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.

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

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