Shirley Jackson
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Emerging from a San Francisco upbringing and a journalism degree earned at Syracuse University, she entered the literary world through contributions to The New Yorker alongside her husband, a faculty member at Bennington College. Her debut novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), introduced a semi-autobiographical voice that soon captured wider attention with the short story “The Lottery,” a chill…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources