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Shirley Hardie Jackson 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.
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culture · American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965) · journalist · novelist · writer · non-fiction writer · children's writer · also Shirley Jackson, Shirley Hardie Jackson, Jackson
Born 14 December 1916 · Died 8 August 1965 · Q239910
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“she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements. She believed that her books would speak for her clearly enough over the years”
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The Guardian: Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published
The Guardian: ‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters
Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology (2021).
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The Guardian: Unseen Shirley Jackson story to be published
The Guardian: 'She puts you into a dream': inside a thrilling film about Shirley Jackson
The novel was adapted into a feature film, Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker
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Netflix produced The Haunting of Hill House, a ten-episode horror series loosely based on Jackson's 1959 novel of the same name
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Kennedy/Marshall began development through Paramount Pictures of a feature-length film based on Jackson's short story "The Lottery"
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Journalist Ruth Franklin published Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, a biography examining the influence of Jackson's upbringing, marriage, and addictions upon her work, while positioning Jackson as a major figure
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With a release date originally set for summer of 2017, but premiered in September 2018
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Susan Scarf Merrell published a well-received thriller, Shirley: A Novel, about Jackson, her husband, a fictional couple who move in with them, and a missing girl
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle was adapted into a musical drama by Adam Bock and Todd Almond and premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre on September 17, 2010; the production was directed by Anne Kauffman
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Critic Harold Bloom published an extensive study of Jackson's work, challenging the notion that it was worthy of inclusion in the Western canon; Bloom wrote of "The Lottery", specifically: "Her art of narration [stays] o
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The Shirley Jackson Awards were established with permission of Jackson's estate
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The Haunting of Hill House was adapted a second time, into the critically panned The Haunting, directed by Jan de Bont and starring Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones
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A crate of unpublished stories was found in a barn behind Jackson's house
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As a short film that director Larry Yust made for Encyclopædia Britannica Films
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Jackson's husband released a posthumous volume of her work, Come Along with Me, containing her unfinished last novel, as well as 14 previously uncollected short stories (among them "Louisa, Please Come Home") and three l
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Died 1965-08-08.
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Jackson died in her sleep at her home in North Bennington, at the age of 48
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Screenwriter Nelson Gidding adapted The Haunting of Hill House into the screenplay for the film The Haunting, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom, directed by Robert Wise
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Awarded Edgar Awards (1961).
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Jackson published the one-act children's musical The Bad Children, based on Hansel and Gretel
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Published The Haunting of Hill House, a supernatural horror novel widely considered to be one of the best ghost stories ever written
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And posthumously in Just an Ordinary Day [1996])
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Jackson published The Bird's Nest (1954), which detailed a woman with multiple personalities and her relationship with her psychiatrist
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"The Lottery" was published in a short story collection of Jackson's titled The Lottery and Other Stories
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Established her reputation as a master of the horror tale
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Jackson published her debut novel, The Road Through the Wall, which tells a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood growing up in Burlingame, California, in the 1920s
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After the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College
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To Stanley Edgar Hyman, critic and numismatist, and we live in Vermont, in a quiet rural community with fine scenery and comfortably far away from city life
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And had brief sojourns in New York City and Westport, Connecticut, ultimately settling in North Bennington, Vermont, where Hyman had been hired as an instructor at Bennington College
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Studied at Syracuse University, Bachelor of Arts (1940).
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[sic] and spent most of my early life in California
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Born 1916-12-14.
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