Shirley Jackson (December 14 ... that when "The Lottery" was published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." ...

When Shirley Jackson died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight ... nearly twenty years after its publication in the New Yorker. Jackson commanded top advances and invitations to the most prestigious ...

On June 26 1948 Shirley Jackson (1916-65) published what may be the most infamous short story in American literature. Called ‘The Lottery’, it was featured in The New Yorker, and at the time became ...