Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie Jackson 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 two hundred short stories. Born in San Francisco, California, in 1916, she died in 1965. She attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. The couple moved to New York City and contributed to The New Yorker, and settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945.