Shirley Jackson
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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco, 14 december 1919 – Northbennington, 8 augustus 1965) was een Amerikaans schrijfster.
Jackson schreef een zestal romans en talloze korte verhalen, waarvan haar werk The Lottery (1948) het meest bekend is. Typerend voor haar schrijfstijl was de horror- en fantastische inslag waarmee vertellingen waren opgebouwd. Ze was getrouwd met criticus Stanley Edgar Hyman.
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[bewerk] Bibliografie
[bewerk] Romans
- The Road Through the Wall (1948)
- Hangsaman (1951)
- The Bird's Nest (1954)
- The Sundial (1958)
- The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
[bewerk] Korte verhalen
- About Two Nice People
- After You, My Dear Alphonse
- Afternoon in Linen
- Charles
- Colloquy
- Come Dance with Me in Ireland
- The Daemon Lover
- Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors
- The Dummy
- Elizabeth
- A Fine Old Firm
- Flower Garden
- Got a Letter from Jimmy
- The Intoxicated
- Like Mother Used to Make
- The Lottery
- Louisa, Please Come Home
- Men with Their Big Shoes
- My Life with R. H. Macy
- Of Course
- One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
- Pillar of Salt
- The Possibility of Evil
- The Renegade
- Seven Types of Ambiguity
- The Tooth
- Trial by Combat
- The Villager
- The Witch
[bewerk] Awards
- 1960 National Book Award nomination: The Haunting of Hill House
- 1962 One of Time magazine's "Ten Best Novels" of the year
- 1966 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Short Story: "The Possibility of Evil"
