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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 .
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
Shirley MacLaine is once again opening the book on her storied life.. In her new memoir and photo album The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime (out Oct. 22 from Crown ...
Photographer Platon (left) and President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-lago on Nov. 25 Credit - Mike Foley. W e are nearing a century of Person of the Year, the franchise TIME’s editors launched ...
This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the ...
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Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 94th birthday on April 21, 2020. This year's celebrations will be slightly different as the monarch and her husband Prince Philip are on lockdown at Windsor ...