Many of her short stories gained national recognition for their unflinching presentation of slow-mounting, psychological and/or spiritual terror such as “Come Dance with Me in Ireland” which won the Best American Short Stories award in 1944, and “The Lottery,” which won the O. The Haunting of Hill House was published in 1959 and has since been adapted twice for film, as The Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999), twice for the stage, and most recently as the basis of a Netflix original series. Her two memoirs, Life Among the Savages(1953) and Raising Demons (1957), detail her family life and offer a rare glimpse into the mundane, every-day reality of one of the greatest horror writers of all time. Her short stories were frequently featured in literary magazines such as the New Yorker, and her work has often been adapted for both the stage and screen. Jackson steadfastly pursued her writing while simultaneously balancing her role as wife and mother to four children., publishing her first novel, The Road Through the Wall in 1948. The couple became well-known for their cocktail parties which were often frequented by the great literary masters of their time such as Ralph Ellison. She remained on the East Coast for the rest of her life, eventually settling in North Bennington, Vermont with her husband and family. It was while attending Syracuse that she met, fell in love with, and eventually married Stanley Edgar Hyman, a fellow student who would eventually become a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. In 1937, she attended Syracuse University where she published her first short story, “Janice,” and became an editor for a campus magazine. Shirley Hardie Jackson was born Decemin San Francisco, California. Today we look back on her life and her successes in honor of her birthday.
Her short story “The Lottery” has remained a staple of short story anthologies since it was first published in 1948, and it is probably the most well-known American short story of the 20th century. Generations of readers have been left speechless and spellbound by the horror and tragedy of The Haunting of Hill House, one of the greatest ghost stories ever written. A master of Gothic mystery and horror, Shirley Jackson’s novels and short stories still resonate with readers more than fifty years after her death, due in part to her uncanny ability to pierce the outward polite facade of her characters to reveal the true, terrifying side of humanity that lurks underneath.
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