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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 mother, however, is unable to recognize the bad behavior of her own son. [1] Ruth Franklin, in Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, notes that an alternative interpretation is that Charles is a supernatural being that only Laurie can see. [2]
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.
Her later posthumous collections were Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968), edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman, and Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995) and Let Me Tell You (Random House, 2015), edited by her children Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. Jackson's original title for this collection was The Lottery or, The Adventures of James ...
Lisa Marie Presley detailed her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson in her From Here to the Great Unknown memoir, which was released posthumously. The late star revealed in her book — published ...
Jack Nicholson found out the woman he grew up thinking was his mother, Ethal May, was actually his grandmother, and that his sister, June, was actually his mother in 1974, when he was 37 years old
The daughter of the iconic Elvis Presley married Jackson in 1994 and the two split in 1996. She continued, discussing her father's possible reaction to the Jackson allegations: "I would imagine he ...
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.