![]() 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. 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.” ![]()
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