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Shirley Jackson (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Shirley Jackson’s horrific fiction belies the biographical facts of her life. Her women characters in particular are often neurotic, alienated, or outcasts from their families and communities. Jackson herself, however, was by all accounts a happily married mother of four who balanced her literary career with activities ranging from school bake sales to entertaining friends, such as fellow author Ralph Ellison, in her family’s home in Vermont. Biographical material by her...

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