Shirley Jackson’s devastating 1948 short story “The Lottery” takes place in what might be a provincial corner of America in which an annual, compulsory lottery lends a degree of adventure… ...
In high school, many of us read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” The piece, published first in a 1948 edition of New Yorker, is about a small, rural community that comes together ...
Enigmatic, important, mid-century writer Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), most familiar from her often-anthologized, chilling story, “The Lottery,” is revealed anew fifty-six years after her death. This ...
NEW YORK — Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 ... otherwise seen her reputation soar well beyond being the author of “The Lottery.” Two volumes of ...