Shirley Jackson Term Papers
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer
in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary
critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Neil Gaiman,
Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson.
Shirley Jackson is best known for her acclaimed short story, "The
Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside
to bucolic, small town America.
In Shirley Jackson's critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja
Friedman notes that when "The Lottery" was published in the June 28,
1948 issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker
story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were
characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and
old-fashioned abuse."
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