![]() ![]() Shirley Jackson would not have been surprised by the idea that mob psychology could suddenly take hold in a small town. ![]() "Reading those really gave me a sense, first of her range, but second also of the quality of life for women, especially creative women like Shirley Jackson, in the 1950s and the strictures under which she had to live," Franklin says. She tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that she got interested in writing about Jackson after exploring further in her work - especially her memoirs of domestic life. Writer Ruth Franklin has a new biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. But about a decade earlier, she wrote a short story for the New Yorker magazine which started conversations all over the country. She wrote a number of novels, two of them best sellers, one nominated for the National Book Award probably the most famous book was called The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959. ![]() Shirley Jackson was a fairly famous writer in her short lifetime. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Shirley Jackson Subtitle A Rather Haunted Life Author Ruth Franklin ![]()
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