Her relationship with her mother was a strained, her parent had married young, and her mother was disappointed that she became pregnant with Shirley as she was looking forward to spending good times with her husband. Her family lived in Burlingame, California, a wealthy middle-class suburban that was featured in Shirley’s debut novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948). The author was born in San Francisco, California, even though she claimed that she was born in 1919, her birth record stated that she was born in 1916. Jackson is famously known for her short story The Lottery (1948) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959), which is considered as one of her best ghost stories ever written. She has been acknowledged as an inspiration to a set of authors including Sarah Waters, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Kneale, Joanne Harris, and Richard Matheson. She was famous during her times, and her works have received literary critics in the recent years. Shirley Jackson (born: 1916- Died: 1965) was an American author of Short Stories, Horror, Biographies, and Memoirs. Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Storiesįirst Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me
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