Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was born in San Francisco and raised in a series of comfortable suburban homes that would later provide the unsettling backdrop for her fiction. She studied at Syracuse University, where she met her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Her story "The Lottery," published in The New Yorker in 1948, generated more mail than any story in the magazine's history and established her as a writer of singular, disturbing power. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Haunting of Hill House.