Shirley Jackson’s devastating 1948 short story “The Lottery” takes place in what might be a provincial corner of America in which an annual, compulsory lottery lends a degree of adventure… ...

Enigmatic, important, mid-century writer Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), most familiar from her often-anthologized, chilling story, “The Lottery,” is revealed anew fifty-six years after her death. This ...

a process especially time consuming because Shirley Jackson rarely dated her manuscripts. Hyman, who manages his mother’s estate, has co-edited two posthumous collections of her stories and other ...

In high school, many of us read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” The piece, published first in a 1948 edition of New Yorker, is about a small, rural community that comes together ...