Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was published in
The New Yorker in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including
The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and
The Sundial; two bestselling family chronicles,
Life Among the Savages and
Raising Demons; and hundreds of short stories, many published in five separate posthumous collections. She died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight.
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