In 1944 Jackson’s story “Come Dance With Me in Ireland” was chosen for Best American Short Stories. She began having her stories published in The New Republic and The New Yorker, and the first of their four children was born. Both graduated in 1940 and moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, where Shirley wrote without fail every day while they both worked odd jobs. After winning a poetry contest at Syracuse she met her future husband, young aspiring literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, and together they founded a literary magazine, Spectre, with Hyman as editor. She entered Syracuse University in 1937, where she published her first story, “Janice,” and was soon appointed fiction editor of the campus humor magazine. After a year, in 1936, she withdrew and spent a year at home practicing writing, producing a minimum of a thousand words a day. Her family moved East when she was seventeen, and she attended the University of Rochester. Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916, and spent her childhood in nearby Burlingame, California, where she began writing poetry and short stories as a young teenager. Also in 2016: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) and an authorized biography by Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Norton).Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, one of the most brilliant and influential authors of the twentieth century, is widely acclaimed for her stories and novels of the supernatural, including the well-known short story “The Lottery” and the best-selling novel “The Haunting of Hill House.” A graphic novel adaptation of "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman, her grandson, was published in 2016 (Farrar-Straus-Giroux). Two posthumous volumes of her short fiction are Just An Ordinary Day (Bantam) and Let Me Tell You (Random House).
Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Her novels-which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House-are characterized by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was published in 1948. Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916.
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