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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.
According to Shirley Jackson's biographers, her marriage was plagued by Hyman's infidelities, notably with his former students, and she reluctantly agreed to his proposition of maintaining an open relationship. [4] Hyman was a consistent supporter of his wife's work and resented the lack of recognition she received during her lifetime.
Author Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was possibly inspired by Welden's vanishing when she wrote her novel Hangsaman (1951), as indicated by Jackson's papers in the Library of Congress. [21] At the time of Welden's disappearance in 1946, Jackson was living in North Bennington, where her husband was employed at Bennington College.
The newly published "Letters of Shirley Jackson" proves that the great, complicated author of "The Lottery" couldn't tell a dull story if she tried.
Elisabeth Moss stars as writer Shirley Jackson with Michael Stuhlbarg and Odessa Young in Josephine Decker's ingenious anti-biopic "Shirley."
It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood , who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate.
Josephine Decker's prickly, unnerving “Shirley,” is set mostly in the Bennington, Vermont, home of the reclusive writer Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her husband, the literary critic ...
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