Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916, and spent her childhood in nearby Burlingame, California, where she began writing poetry and short stories as a young teenager. Her family moved East when she was seventeen, and she attended the University of Rochester. After a year, in 1936, she withdrew and spent a year at home practicing writing, producing a minimum of a thousand words a day. She entered Syracuse University in 1937, where she published her first story, “Janice,” and was soon appointed fiction editor of the campus humor magazine. After winning a poetry contest at Syracuse she met her future husband, critic Stanley Edgar Hyman they had four children together, and they founded a literary magazine, Spectre, with Hyman as editor. They moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, where Shirley wrote without fail every day while working her job. She began having her stories published in The New Republic and The New Yorker, and the first of ...
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