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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

By Ruth Franklin
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By Ruth Franklin
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2016 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Biography
2017 Edgar Award Winner for Best Critical/Biographical Work

This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master.Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A gen…

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