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  <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson.
She is best known for her dystopian short story, &quot;The Lottery&quot; (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story &quot;The Lottery&quot; was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that &quot;no &lt;i&gt;New Yorker&lt;/i&gt; story had ever received.&quot; Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, &quot;bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse.&quot; 
]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>San Francisco, CA</hometown>  <born_at>12/14/1916</born_at>  <died_at>08/08/1965</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lottery: And Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <published>1949</published>  
  
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        <book id="89717">
  <title><![CDATA[The Haunting of Hill House]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.87</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2575</ratings_count>
  <published>1959</published>  
  
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        <book id="89724">
  <title><![CDATA[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1962</ratings_count>
  <published>1962</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Life among the Savages]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.07</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>362</ratings_count>
  <published>1953</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories Of Shirley Jackson]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>187</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Raising Demons]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.15</average_rating>
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  <published>1959</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lottery]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.26</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>148</ratings_count>
  <published>1949</published>  
  
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        <book id="89722">
  <title><![CDATA[Come Along with Me]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>126</ratings_count>
  <published>1968</published>  
  
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        <book id="131181">
  <title><![CDATA[The Sundial]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>120</ratings_count>
  <published>1958</published>  
  
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        <book id="131179">
  <title><![CDATA[The Bird's Nest]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>69</ratings_count>
  <published>1954</published>  
  
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