The Lovely House: Westport, Hangsaman, 1950-1951.Notes on a modern book of witchcraft: The Lottery: or, The Adventures of James Harris, 1948-1949.A classic in some category: 'The Lottery,' 1948.

Sidestreet, U.S.A.: Bennington, The road through the wall, 1945-1948.

The mad bohemians: New York, New Hampshire, Syracuse, 1940-1942.

Intentions charged with power: Brooklyn, 1919-1937.

The demon in the mind: Rochester, 1933-1937.

Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, Shirley Jackson, with its exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaged childhood and a troubled marriage to literary critic Stanley Hyman, becomes the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary giant.'. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition of Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique contribution to this genre came from her focus on 'domestic horror' drawn from an era hostile to women. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author behind such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. A genius of literary suspense, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. 'Still known to millions only as the author of the 'The Lottery,' Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from the American literary canon. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life / Ruth Franklin Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books

Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin