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 ...

Shirley Jackson worried that We Have Always Lived ... According to a letter Jackson wrote to her parents, she also thought the heroine, Merricat, was a bit on the “batty” side.

There’s something rotten at the core of the much-praised faux-biopic from Josephine Decker, based on a novel fictionalizing Shirley Jackson. June 12, 2020 As she writes to her parents in 1950 ...

“Shirley Jackson was born … into comfort, pleasant surroundings, and social position, but to parents who never truly knew what to make of her, not in childhood and not throughout her entire ...

Shirley moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico with her family as a junior in high school graduating as valedictorian. She married Loyd Jackson in 1952, residing in Carlsbad for 72 years until moving to ...