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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.
This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work titled Just An Ordinary Day, which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had ...
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.
The 2020 film Shirley is a fictionalized account of the time in which Jackson was writing Hangsaman, depicting the novel's creation as being inspired both by the Welden disappearance and the life of a newly married couple boarding in the home of Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman.
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In his 2006 introduction of the Penguin Classics edition, Jonathan Lethem stated that the recurring town is "pretty well recognizable as North Bennington, Vermont", where Jackson and her husband, Bennington professor Stanley Edgar Hyman, encountered strong "reflexive anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism". [5]
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 ...
Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Katey Sagal’s ex-husband Jack Cameron White died at age 70. Sagal, 70, and Jack’s son, Jackson White, announced the news on Tuesday, July 16, while paying tribute ...