Born-San Francisco, California-December 3, 1919 Died-North Bennington, Vermont- August 8, 1965-45 Have published novels, humorous fictionalized autobiographies, and children books Many have remained uncollected 1961, Edgar Allen Poe Reward, Louisa, Please 1965, Syracuse University A rents Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Achievements Moved to NY at 16 After enrolling in Syracuse, beginning of independent life for author At Syracuse, met Stanley Edgar Hyman-would marry in 1940 Hyman Achieved notoriety in his own right as a teacher, writer, critic After marriage and birth of 4, literary production increased markedly Agoraphobic, depressive Contributing to by asthma and arthritis Hyman extramarital affair in early 1960 s 1963, husband made new commitments to marriage Helped her work with agoraphobia Obese, chain smoker Stories center of one concern Almost every story, protagonists discovering Protagonists were mostly women Failing to discover Successfully ignoring an alternate way of perceiving set of circumstances or the world CRITICAL SURVEY OF SHORT FICTION BOOK WORKS 1948 The Lottery 1954 The Birds Nest 1957 Raising Demons 1958 The Sundial 1959 The Haunting of Hill House 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1966 The Magic of Shirley Jackson-published after she died -original series about lonely or mentally distrubed people who have experiences with supernatural events published first book at age 18 age 29 New Yorker magazine publish The Lottery The Lottery was the book that made her famous fascinated with black magic in 1919 (born) -1919 prohibition introduced to US 1926 British scientist John Baird Demonsrtates TV 1927 Joseph Stalin Becomes dictator of Russ i 1931 Empire State Building in New York City Completed 1933 Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, gains control of Germany 1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1939-45 WWII: allies, led by US and Great Britian, fight axis powers, led by Germany and Japan 1941-Germany invades USSR 1945-US drops first atomic bombs on Japan 1945-United Nations (UN), organization working for betterment of humanity, founded 1950-53 Korean war: North Korea and china fight South Korea, the US, and United Nations troops 1957 Eisenhower sends troops to little rock, arkansas, to ensure school desecration I believe that in shirley jacksons writings, a lot had influenced her. One of the major things i think that had influenced her and her writing were the problems that she had with her husband. Her husband had had an affair in the 1960 which would have caused her a great deal of either sadness, grief, or pain. Maybe it was all of these that she had felt. In the story “Clique”, she had her husband as being mentally disturbed and needing to go to a psychotrist. However, i believe that it may have been herself coming out in her own story.
A lot of times, an author will do this just to get his / her story across about what is happening but changes the characters names to make it a story that the readers will not conect to the actual author. I also believe that the world happenings also planned a major role on her writing. While she was alive, a lot of dark things have happened expecailly with the atomic bombs first drop. Bibliography public journal 1956 la times vol#2.