1. Shirley Jackson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 1 – August 8, 1965) was an influential American author. Although a popular writer in her time, her work has received http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson

Shirley Jackson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Shirley Jackson December 14 August 8 ) was an influential American author . Although a popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson She is perhaps best known for her short story " The Lottery " (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28 issue of The New Yorker , it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse." In the July 22 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle Jackson offered the following in response to persistent queries from her readers about her intentions: Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

2. Shirley A. Jackson Shirley A. Jackson AKA Shirley Ann Jackson. Born 5Aug-1946 Birthplace Washington, DC. Gender Female Race or Ethnicity Black http://www.nndb.com/people/668/000061485/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Shirley A. Jackson AKA Shirley Ann Jackson Born: 5-Aug Birthplace: Washington, DC Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist , Business, Government Nationality: United States Executive summary: NRC Chairman, 1995-99 Father: George Jackson (postal supervisor) Mother: Beatrice Jackson (social worker) Husband: Morris A. Washington (physicist) Son: Alan High School: Roosevelt High School, Washington, DC University: BS Physics, MIT (1968) University: PhD Theoretical Physics, MIT (1973) Professor: Physics, Rutgers University (1991-95) Administrator: Trustee, Georgetown University Administrator: President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999-) Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (2005-) Bell Laboratories Theoretical Physicist (1976-91) Member of the Board of Member of the Board of CoreStates Financial Member of the Board of FedEx Member of the Board of IBM Member of the Board of KeyCorp Member of the Board of Marathon Oil Member of the Board of Medtronic Member of the Board of New York Stock Exchange Member of the Board of Public Service Enterprise Group Member of the Board of Sealed Air Member of the Board of US Steel Member of the Board of USX Corporation American Association for the Advancement of Science Chairman (2005) American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Philosophical Society American Physical Society Brookings Institution Trustee

3. Biography Center Biographies Of Shirley Jackson In Biographies of jackson shirley and, for more detail Biography of , , www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Jackson/ http://www.biography-center.com/biographies/6424-Jackson_Shirley.html

4. Shirley Jackson - Authors - Books - Fine Arts - News Bill Clinton sitting in the front row as Mayor Shirley Jackson of Atlanta encouraged those gathered to elect the first black president. http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books/authors/shirley_jackson

Search Shirley Jackson All News News Blogs New tab personalize your page by selecting the info that interests you! relevance date popularity Subscribe News Fine Arts Books Authors Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson To read today's news personalize this page Vote! Shirley Jackson Awards Mirathon - 01/25/2008 Tags : Authors Fine Arts In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson 's writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Award has been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. Ellen Datlow 's on the Board of Advisors . (I just shopping carted at amazon an anthology of ghost stories she's edited.)... add comment send to a friend Vote! UKSFBN Quick Links Listing for 24.01.08 The UK SF Book News Network - 01/24/2008 Tags : Authors Books Edinburgh Fine Arts ... Ellen Datlow has announced the launch of the Shirley Jackson Award, to recognise "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic". [via SFAwardsWatch.com] Brit author Andy Remic has been interviewed about his new novel War Machine over at SF Signal.com (the comments are quite lively, too). The FPI Blog [...]

5. Women In Science - Physics - Dr. Shirley A. Jackson Shirley A. Jackson was born in 1946. In 1973, she became the first Black woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of http://library.thinkquest.org/20117/jackson.html

6. Shirley Jackson SHIRLEY JACKSON Individuality versus Community QUESTION ONE The works of Shirley Jackson tend to the macabre because she typically unveils the hidden side http://www.lotsofessays.com/essay_search/shirley_jackson.html

Members Login Sign Up!!! Categories Arts Business Custom Research Economics ... Science and Technology Support FAQ Customer Service Site Search Home ... Site Search Enter Search Topic: Essays on shirley jackson Shirley Jackson SHIRLEY JACKSON Individuality versus Community QUESTION ONE The works of Shirley Jackson tend to the macabre because she typically unveils the hidden side of ... (1721 Words Approx. 7 Pages) The Lottery The Lottery by Shirley Jackson was a very shocking story when it was published in 1948, and it was carefully designed to be shocking because the author ... (1128 Words Approx. 5 Pages) Research Essay Assignment ... remember: this essay will form the bulk of your grade for ENG102 Online. See syllabus for beakdown The Lottery BY SHIRLEY JACKSON The morning of June 27th was ... (3740 Words Approx. 15 Pages) The Lottery In the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the townspeople as a whole are reacting to peer pressure. They overcome their own personal ... (1122 Words Approx. 4 Pages) The Lottery and Issue of Obedience In the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the townspeople as a whole are reacting to peer pressure. They overcome their own personal ... (1122 Words Approx. 4 Pages)

7. Members Of The MIT Corporation - Shirley Ann Jackson Shirley Ann Jackson. Life Member. President Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York. SPOTLIGHT. A Brief History and Workings of the Corporation http://web.mit.edu/corporation/members/Jackson-S.html

massachusetts institute of technology The MIT Corporation Home About the Corporation ... Contact Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation Membership Browse Members Officers View photos View list Members View photos View list Life Members View photos View list Ex Officio Members View photos View list Life Members Emeriti View photos View list All Members View photos View list Please note that the following list is for information only. Mailings to the Office of the Corporation will not be forwarded to members nor will members' personal contact information be disclosed. Life Member President Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York SPOTLIGHT "A Brief History and Workings of the Corporation" by Dana Mead, MIT Faculty Newsletter May/June 2006 Read more... SEARCH MIT MIT Office of the Corporation Room 7-203 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139 Phone 617.253.2058 Fax 617.253.8544 E-mail the office

8. Shirley Jackson - Britannica Concise Shirley Jackson US novelist and shortstory writer. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9368367/Shirley-Jackson

document.writeln(AAMB1); Jackson, Shirley Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Shirley Jackson born Dec. 14, 1919, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died Aug. 8, 1965, North Bennington, Vt. U.S. novelist and short-story writer. She is best known for her story "The Lottery" (1948), a chilling tale that provoked outrage when first published, and The Haunting of Hill House (1959; film, 1963, 1999). These and her other five novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), confirmed her reputation as a master of gothic horror and psychological suspense. document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Shirley Jackson" from the 32 Volume Jackson, Shirley - American novelist and short-story writer best known for her story "The Lottery" (1948). Syracuse University - private, coeducational institution of higher education, located in Syracuse, New York, U.S. It offers more than 200 undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through 15 colleges and schools. Research facilities include the All-University Gerontology Center (established 1972), the Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (1984), and the Center for ... American Civil War - In Arkansas, Federal troops under Frederick Steele moved upon the Confederates and defeated them at Prairie Grove, near Fayetteville, on December 7, 1862-a victory that paved the way for Steele's eventual capture of Little Rock the next September.

9. PlanetPapers - The Lottery And Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson’s own life has serious effects on her writings, especially on “The Lottery.” Her early life was not a peaceful one. http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/5000.php

Essay Index Custom Writing Admissions Help Submit an Essay FAQ / Help Essay Links Link to us Contact Us search tips power search -> Jump to: Home Art and Music Biographies Business Creative Writing Film Geography History Literature Shakespeare Miscellaneous Poetry Politics Religion Social Issues What's New Top10 Essays Login or Signup Enter Your Paper Topic Here: CLICK HERE FOR MORE THAN 50,000 PAPERS Read User Comments Rate/Comment on this essay Cite this essay: MLA APA Print this essay Index ... Literature The Lottery and Shirley Jackson Written by: nukrolat Shirley Jackson’s own life has serious effects on her writings, especially on “The Lottery.” Her early life was not a peaceful one. She preferred to stay in her room and write poetry rather than go outside and play with other children. Her college life was not great either because she dropped out and was put in a mental institute. After she was released from there her married life started. Shirley married in 1940 to Stanley Edgar Hyman, a Jewish intellectual whom encouraged her rebellion. He also encouraged her to become a severe critic who smoked too much, ate too much, and used drugs. In The Lottery, a woman –Ms. Hutchinson- finally attempts to rebel against the seemingly normal stoning when she is chosen to be stoned. This may be connected to Jackson’s rebellion against her parents encouraged by her husband. The woman’s rebellion in The Lottery, ends in her death. This could be related with Jackson’s involvement with drugs, smoking, and food due to her encouraging husband.

10. Strong Force: The Story Of Physicist Shirley Ann Jackson Shirley Ann Jackson sees the unseen. She s an expert in the invisible particles that make up everything in the universe, including you. Shirley Ann Jackson http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11554.html

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11. Shirley Jackson - Wikiquote Wikipedia has an article about. Shirley Jackson The Lottery. Retrieved from http//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson

Shirley Jackson From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Shirley Jackson December 14 ... August 8 ) was an influential American author. Contents Sourced The Lottery (1948) The Haunting of Hill House (1959) Unsourced ... edit Sourced Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. San Francisco Chronicle (July 22, 1948) Regarding her story The Lottery Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa? The Bird's Nest One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted and enriched and delighted by the stories I wrote. It had simply never occurred to me that these the millions and millions of people might be so far from being uplifted that they would sit down and write me letters I was downright scared to open; of the three-hundred-odd letters that I received that summer I can count only thirteen that spoke kindly to me, and they were mostly from friends. Even my mother scolded me: "Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker," she wrote sternly; "it does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?"

12. Alan Chartock Interviews Shirley Ann Jackson Shirley Ann Jackson Listen to Alan s latest interview with Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson. They talk about her life growing http://www.chartock.net/jackson.html

Home WAMC Alan Chartock Bio Alan Chartock Blog ... Capital Connection Alan Chartock Interviews Shirley Ann Jackson Listen to Alan's latest interview with Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson. They talk about her life growing up and her distinguished career in physics and higher education .... Listen You'll need a Real Audio Player to listen.

13. Shirley Jackson: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati A new award has been established, named for Shirley Jackson, to Honor Writers of Psychological Suspense, Horror, and the Dark Fantastic. http://technorati.com/tag/Shirley Jackson

Catch the latest action, scores and banter in Sports Join Sign in Help ... Blogger Central 72 posts tagged Shirley Jackson Subscribe Posts Blogs Videos Photos search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) UKSFBN Quick Links Listing for 24.01.08 UKSFBN Quick Links Listing for 24.01.08 Posted by Darren Turpin on January 24th, 2008 at 21:27 Ellen Datlow has announced the launch of the Shirley Jackson Award, to recognise "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic". 2 days ago by ArielUK in The UK SF Book News Network Authority: 115 The Shirley Jackson Award http://hellnotes.com/ the-shirley-jackson-award/

14. The Works Of Shirley Jackson Includes biography, bibliography, criticism and resources. http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-jkh/

The Works of Shirley Jackson Biography Bibliography Criticism Resources Welcome to the Shirley Jackson web site. Shirley Jackson was a prolific American writer best known for her short story "The Lottery." However, many people are now discovering her other works, which range from children's non-fiction to fiction rooted in the Gothic to feminist fiction. If you are researching her fiction, several tools are available to you on this site: Biography provides a brief look at her life, highlighting short fiction publications. Bibliography lists all her works, dates of publications, and, for the short fiction, magazines in which the stories appeared. Criticism is divided into two categories: book length works on Jackson and short criticism. Resources will link you to internet sites which either address Jackson's work or provide more information about a particular literary genre in which her fiction has been placed. Contact me with questions, comments, more links.

15. Shirley Jackson Critical essay about shirley jackson s life and work. Includes a selected bibliography. http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html

Search / Site Map Contacts Horror Fiction INTERVIEWS Les Daniels Delano and Ennis Neil Gaiman Stephen Gallagher ... David J Schow ARTICLES Stephen King articles Scaring the Children Vampire Fiction Clive Barker Robert Bloch Shirley Jackson Richard Matheson The Witching Hour adaptions Ten great Horror novels ... The Ship That Died of Shame BIBLIOGRAPHIES Fontana's "Great Ghost Stories" Series The "Ghost Book" Series RELATED CONTENT Modern Horror Horror on the Screen Reviews The Dark Ages: A History of Horror ... Australian Genre Shirley Jackson House and Guardians by Kyla Ward First Appeared in Tabula Rasa#7 Go to timeline entry I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me. Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson, 1953

16. About Shirley Jackson The Life and Work of shirley jackson. jackson messageboard, complete text of jackson s books and short stories, links to other information on jackson. http://jackson.classicauthors.net/

About Shirley Jackson Works Online The Lottery Additional Resources Shirley Jackson - Life and Work by Bette Reagan Timeline Born in San Francisco CA Moves to Rochester NY Graduated from Syracuse University in 1940 and married the American literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Published first short story, My Life with RH Macy Wrote The Road Through the Wall Wrote The Lottery Wrote The Hangsaman Wrote Life Among the Savages Wrote The Bird’s Nest Wrote Raising Demons Wrote The Sundial Wrote The Haunting of Hill House Wrote We Have Always Lived in the Castle Died Resources On The Web Essay on Jackson's The Lottery - Written by Peter Kosenko The Haunted World of Shirley Jackson - Very comprehensive site - contain bio, influences, etc. Monstrous Acts and Little Murders - Analysis of Jackson's works Mundane Evil - Timeline, bio, poorly written reports Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) - Brief Bio. Jackson's Works - Fairly comprehensive bibliography. Critique - Decent Critique of Ms. Jackson's work written by a student House and Guardians - Critical Essay on Ms. Jackson

17. RPI: Profile Of Shirley Ann Jackson, President The Honorable shirley Ann jackson, Ph.D. became the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on July 1, 1999. Dr. jackson is a theoretical http://www.rpi.edu/president/profile.html

The Tenacious President Shirley Ann Jackson Sticks to the Plan Read more [PDF] As published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn., the oldest technological research university in the United States. Described by Time Magazine Since her arrival in 1999, Dr. Jackson has fostered an extraordinary renaissance at Rensselaer through the vision, development and implementation of The Rensselaer Plan See also: Accomplishments under the Rensselaer Plan Dr. Jackson holds a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics from M.I.T. (1973) and a S.B. in physics from M.I.T. (1968). Her research specialty is in theoretical condensed matter physics, especially layered systems, and the physics of opto-electronic materials. In 1995 President William Clinton appointed Dr. Jackson to serve as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). She was Chairman of the NRC from 1995-1999. As Chairman, she was the principal executive officer of and the official spokesman for the NRC. She had ultimate authority for all NRC functions pertaining to an emergency involving an NRC licensee. The NRC is charged with the protection of the public health and safety, the environment, and the common defense and security by licensing, regulating, and safeguarding the use of reactor byproduct material in the U.S. This includes power reactors; research, test, and training reactors; fuel cycle facilities; reactor byproduct use in medicine, industry and research; the transportation, storage, and disposal of high-level and low-level radioactive waste; and the licensing of nuclear exports for peaceful uses.

18. Shirley Jackson A bibliography of shirley jackson s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/shirley-jackson/

Fantastic Fiction Authors J Shirley Jackson Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U Shirley Jackson Search Authors Search Books About Shirley Jackson The late Shirley Jackson is the author of the classic short story, "The Lottery," a dark, unforgettable tale of the unthinking and murderous customs of a small New England town. She is also the author of several American Gothic novels, such as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House. Her atmospheric stories explore themes of psychological turmoil, isolation, and the inequity of fate. Novels The Road through the Wall aka The Other Side of the Street Hangsaman The Bird's Nest aka Lizzie The Witchcraft of Salem Village The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House aka The Haunting And Baby Makes Three We Have Always Lived in the Castle Famous Sally: A Harlin Quist Book Collections The Lottery 9 Magic Wishes The Magic of Shirley Jackson Come along with Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures

19. Salon | Monstrous Acts And Little Murders Review by Lethem on a new collection of unpublished stories by The Lottery author, shirley jackson. http://www.salon.com/jan97/jackson970106.html

A new collection of unpublished stories betrays the two faces of Shirley Jackson, the writer who created "The Lottery." By JONATHAN LETHEM "The Lottery," of course, the story everyone knows even if they don't remember Shirley Jackson's name. A small New England town, blandly familiar in every way, sleepwalking its way through ritual murder. Likely the most controversial piece of fiction ever published in the New Yorker, resulting in hundreds of canceled subscriptions, later adapted for television, radio and ballet, it now resides in the popular imagination as an archetype. It can be as difficult to persuade readers that the story is just one sheaf in the portfolio of one of this century's most luminous and strange American writers as it is to explain that the town portrayed in "The Lottery" is a real one. The town hasn't changed, or at least it hadn't by the mid- eighties, when I was a student at the school. A handful of the townspeople portrayed in thin disguise in Jackson's novels and stories were still around. I knew the square where "The Lottery" takes place. It was Jackson's fate, as a faculty wife and an eccentric newcomer in a staid, insular village, to absorb the reflexive antisemitism and anti-intellectualism felt by the townspeople toward the college. She and her children were accessible in a way that her husband and his colleagues and students, who spent their days on the campus, were not. The hostility of the villagers further shaped her psyche, and her art; the process eventually redoubled so the latter fed the former. After the enormous success of "The Lottery," a legend arose in town, almost certainly false, that Jackson had been pelted with stones by schoolchildren one day, then gone home and written the story. The real crisis came near the end of her life, resulting in a period of agoraphobia and psychosis; she wrote her way through it in "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." In that novel, Jackson brilliantly isolates the two aspects in her psyche into two odd, damaged sisters: one hypersensitive and afraid, unable to leave the house, the other a sort of squalid demon prankster who may or may not have murdered the rest of her family for her fragile sister's sake. For me, it is that unique and dreamlike book, rather than "The Lottery," that stands as her masterpiece.

20. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Essay by Peter Kosenko from the New Orleans Review. http://www.netwood.net/~kosenko/jackson.html

A Reading of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" The following essay was published in the New Orleans Review , vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 27-32. Students and teachers are free to copy and quote it for scholarly purposes, but publishers should contact me before they reprint it for profit. Students should discuss the essay with each other and in their classrooms. Please do not ask me to answer your classroom essay questions for you; it defeats the purpose of your instructor having given you the assignment. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of the New Yorker it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received": hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by "bewilderment, speculation, and old-fashioned abuse." It is not hard to account for this response: Jackson's story portrays an "average" New England village with "average" citizens engaged in a deadly rite, the annual selection of a sacrificial victim by means of a public lottery, and does so quite deviously: not until well along in the story do we suspect that the "winner" will be stoned to death by the rest of the villagers. One can imagine the average reader of Jackson's story protesting: But we engage in no such inhuman practices. Why are you accusing us of

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