Biography + shirley jackson + pen name

American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)

This article is about the American writer. For the physicist and former president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, see Shirley Ann Jackson.

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.

Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.

Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman.^[8] After they graduated, the couple moved to New York City and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town".

The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the