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WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE - SHIRLEY JA...

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first
published in The New Yorker in 1948  readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail  it has
since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel  The Road
Through the Wall   was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman  
The Bird's Nest   The Sundial   The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the
Castle   widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark  brilliant novels  she wrote
lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband
the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965 at the age of 48.

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