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Shirley Jackson


Born
in San Francisco, California, The United States
December 14, 1916

Died
August 08, 1965

Genre
Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories


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, "The Lottery" (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 "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,076,324 ratings · 113,636 reviews · 346 distinct works • Similar authors
The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 426,988 ratings — published 1959 — 261 editions
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We Have Always Lived in the...
3.90 avg rating — 321,068 ratings — published 1962
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The Lottery
4.03 avg rating — 120,236 ratings — published 1948 — 102 editions
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 84,308 ratings — published 1949 — 108 editions
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Hangsaman
3.76 avg rating — 13,447 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions
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Dark Tales
3.99 avg rating — 10,786 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions
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Life Among the Savages
3.95 avg rating — 10,494 ratings — published 1953 — 69 editions
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The Sundial
3.79 avg rating — 9,280 ratings — published 1958 — 6 editions
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The Bird's Nest
3.72 avg rating — 8,743 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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The Missing Girl
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
tags: horror, house
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“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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