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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]
Lenemaja Friedman's Shirley Jackson (Twayne Publishers, 1975) was the first published survey of Jackson's life and work. Judy Oppenheimer also covers Shirley Jackson's life and career in Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson (Putnam, 1988). S. T. Joshi's The Modern Weird Tale (2001) offers a critical essay on Jackson's work. [99]
“I am Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson!” she intoned after another student (a fifth grader!) made it clear she wanted to hear her story. Johnson went on. “I am one of the first African American women ...
Mary Katherine Blackwood is the main character in Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The eighteen-year-old "Merricat" lives with her remaining family members, Constance and Julian Blackwood, on an estate in Vermont. As a result of a tragedy six years prior the family remains isolated from the surrounding village.
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The Shirley Ann Jackson Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Shirley Ann Jackson joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 43.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Life Among the Savages is a collection of short stories edited into novel form, written by Shirley Jackson. Originally these stories were published individually in women's magazines such as Good Housekeeping , Woman's Day , Mademoiselle , and others.
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 ...