Life And Work Of Shirley Jackson

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years, while at Syracuse, Shirley published, fifteen pieces in campus magazines and became fiction editor of "The Syracusan", a campus humor magazine. When her position as fiction editor was eliminated, she and fellow classmate Stanley Edgar Hyman began to plan a magazine of literary quality, one that the English Club finally agreed to sponsor (Friedman, 21). In 1939, the first edition of "The Spectre" was published. Although the magazine became popular, the English department didn't like the biting editorials and critical essays. But inspite of the department's constant watch over the magazine, Leonard Brown, a modern literature teacher, backed the students and the publication. Later, Jackson was always to refer to Brown as her mentor; and in 1959 she dedicated her novel "The Haunting of Hill House" to him(Oppenheimer, 45). But in the summer of 1940, since Jackson and Hyman were graduating, and it was announced the "The Spectre" had been discontinued. "Apparently hard ...

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by that time, had decided that Shirely Jackson was a writer of much talent and uniqueness. Even though Jackson was raising four children while her husband went to work, she still found time to write. Sometimes when a story idea would come to her, she would bolt off to her typewriter. Instead of fighting writing, as other writers do, she found the opposite; that writing was relaxing.
In 1949, the Hymans moved to Westport, Connecticut. As usual she worked hard. Six of her stories were published in various magazines including "The New Mexico Quarterly Review", "Collier's", and "The Reader's Digest." A year later her second novel, "Hangsaman" was ready for publication. Critics, a "Time" ...

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