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Shirley
Jackson
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in the year 1919.She
continued to live in California for most of her early life. She
attended Syracuse University and met Stanley Hyman (Literary Critic).
She married Stanley in 1940. He supported her writing. They had four
children and went on to have a happy life.
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Some of Shirley Jackson's work were, An Ordinary Day With Peanuts,
The Lottery,Charlie, We have Always lived in a Castle, The Road Through
the Wall, Life Amoung the Savages, Sundial, The Birds Nest, and
Hangsaman. Shirley Jackson's life affects the way she writes her
stories. During her psychosis period she wrote the Castle. She abused
prescription drugs along with alcohol and ciggarattes. Most of the stories
during that time were evil dark and depressing. When Shirley Jackson
got helped by psychotherapy. It reflected the newer lighter world that
Jackson had created. Most of her stories during that time were dealing
with good and evil.
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