Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two ...

When Shirley Jackson died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight ... but second-wave feminists looked elsewhere for literary heroines. Jackson’s husband, the critic Stanley Hyman, was troubled by ...