Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

by Ruth Franklin

Book Overview

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 genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871403137
• ISBN13: 9780871403131
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"