Shirley Jackson’s weird and always absorbing fictions ... But another reason may have been that the literary world of publication parties, book contracts, reviews and movie adaptations didn ...

It was, by all accounts, merely the latest mystery in the history of weird-fiction author Shirley Jackson. Paranoia and uncertainty underpinned both Jackson's writing and her life. She died of a ...

Review: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ The book — edited by her eldest son, Laurence Jackson Hyman, in consultation with Jackson scholar Bernice M. Murphy — begins with a few dozen ...

Shirley Jackson was a fairly famous writer in her short lifetime. She wrote a number of novels, two of them best sellers, one nominated for the National Book Award; probably the most famous book ...

It used to be a source of wonder that Shirley Jackson, author of “The Lottery,” “The Haunting of Hill House” and other horrifying tales, was, in her personal life, a housewife with an ...

In the new film Shirley, Elisabeth Moss plays a fictionalized version of acclaimed author Shirley Jackson, whose two-decade career yielded six published novels, two memoirs, and around 200 short ...

are the sort that make you set down the book a second just to make sure the coast is clear. They also present a distance between the real and unreal — the Shirley Jackson who appears in these ...

Author Shirley Jackson’s son remembers a very different woman from the one portrayed in the new Hollywood film. First, imagine someone writes an unflattering novel about your parents that uses ...

Judy Oppenheimer, a writer and journalist best known for a biography exploring the brief, tortured life of author Shirley Jackson, whose short story “The Lottery” became one of the most widely ...

That prompted one of my sisters and me to harvest more stories from the Library and elsewhere, and co-edit a book in 1996, “Just an Ordinary Day,” containing thirty-two new Shirley Jackson ...

Shirley Jackson’s classic story “The Lottery ... after the story’s over. I could shut the book, but the story kept murmuring. I was in my early 30s, just as I was starting down the ...