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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: 3.9 · 815,608 ratings · 79,784 reviews · 296 distinct works • Similar authors
The Haunting of Hill House
3.82 avg rating — 314,189 ratings — published 1959 — 44 editions
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We Have Always Lived in the...
3.93 avg rating — 236,030 ratings — published 1962 — 73 editions
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The Lottery
4.05 avg rating — 92,877 ratings — published 1948 — 90 editions
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.03 avg rating — 78,716 ratings — published 1949 — 159 editions
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Hangsaman
3.77 avg rating — 8,872 ratings — published 1951 — 54 editions
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Life Among the Savages
3.98 avg rating — 8,381 ratings — published 1953 — 60 editions
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Dark Tales
4.01 avg rating — 7,595 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions
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The Sundial
3.80 avg rating — 6,403 ratings — published 1958 — 61 editions
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The Bird's Nest
3.72 avg rating — 6,333 ratings — published 1954 — 48 editions
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The Witchcraft of Salem Vil...
3.80 avg rating — 4,171 ratings — published 1956 — 31 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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September 2016 Revisit the Shelf-Reread

 
  49 votes, 22.7%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 192 pages, 1962
 
  45 votes, 20.8%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages, 1862
 
  38 votes, 17.6%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965
 
  26 votes, 12.0%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
 
  23 votes, 10.6%

Paradise Lost by John Milton, 453 pages, 1667
 
  19 votes, 8.8%

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 554 pages, 1838
 
  16 votes, 7.4%

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