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Shirley Jackson


Born
in San Francisco, California, The United States
December 14, 1916

Died
August 08, 1965

Genre
Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories


Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 907,874 ratings · 91,368 reviews · 315 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Haunting of Hill House
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3.82 avg rating — 354,314 ratings — published 1959 — 476 editions
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We Have Always Lived in the...
3.92 avg rating — 266,137 ratings — published 1962 — 6 editions
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The Lottery
4.04 avg rating — 101,941 ratings — published 1948 — 91 editions
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 81,635 ratings — published 1949 — 165 editions
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Hangsaman
3.77 avg rating — 10,376 ratings — published 1951 — 54 editions
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Life Among the Savages
3.97 avg rating — 8,875 ratings — published 1953 — 63 editions
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Dark Tales
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The Sundial
3.80 avg rating — 7,199 ratings — published 1958 — 63 editions
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The Bird's Nest
3.72 avg rating — 7,151 ratings — published 1954 — 48 editions
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
tags: horror, house
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“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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1879, Dracula by Bram Stoker, 488 pages
 
  33 votes, 23.4%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
 
  26 votes, 18.4%

 
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1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 223 pages
 
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