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After graduating, Jackson and Hyman married in , and had brief sojourns in New York City and Westport, Connecticut , ultimately settling in North Bennington, Vermont , [ 36 ] where Hyman had been hired as an instructor at Bennington College. Adaptations [ edit ]. By the s, Jackson's health began to deteriorate significantly, ultimately leading to her death due to a heart condition in at the age of The Witch by Shirley Jackson 3.

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson 3. Retrieved August 15, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson 4. Retrieved August 5, Murphy Contributor 4. I was married in to Stanley Edgar Hyman, critic and numismatist, and we live in Vermont, in a quiet rural community with fine scenery and comfortably far away from city life.

ThePress Democrat. Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson 4. Retrieved June 8, Learn More. Support our mission. Although she is widely known and praised for horror and suspense , yet she possessed a distinct ability to write comfortably in a variety of genres.

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Retrieved December 17, Download as PDF Printable version. She continued to publish numerous short stories in literary journals and magazines throughout the s, some of which were assembled and reissued in her memoir Life Among the Savages. Then, she attended a private research university, the University of Rochester, but she remained unhappy in her classes.

She also played violin in the school orchestra. Dramatic Publishing. In , the Shirley Jackson Awards were established with permission of Jackson's estate. Early life [ edit ]. This article is about the American writer. Oates wrote of Jackson's fiction: "Characterized by the caprice and fatalism of fairy tales, the fiction of Shirley Jackson exerts a mordant, hypnotic spell.

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To add more books, click here. Jackson's second novel, Hangsaman , contained elements similar to the mysterious real-life December 1, , disappearance of an year-old Bennington College sophomore Paula Jean Welden. Retrieved August 4,