The Shirley Jackson Page

( 1916-1965 )
" The number of people who expected Mrs Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you" (Shirley Jackson).

Major Works
The Lottery and Other Stories ( 1949 ). "The Lottery" On Line
Life Among the Savages ( 1953 ).
Raising Demons ( 1957 ).
The Haunting of Hill House ( 1959 ).
We Have Always Lived in the Castle ( 1962 ).

Come Along With Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures ( 1968 ). Edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Reprinted by Penguin, 1995.

About Jackson
Lenemaja Friedman, Shirley Jackson. Twayne, 1975.
Joan Wylie Hall, Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1993.
Judy Oppenheimer, Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson. Putnam, 1988.
A Reading of "The Lottery" by Peter Kosenko.
Monstrous Acts and Little Murders. By Jonathan Lethem.
Shirley Jackson From Fantastic Fiction.

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