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Shirley Jackson

American writer (1916-1965)

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Born: 1872-09-28
Died: 1947-12-05
Works: 52

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Makers of Christianity - from Jesus to Charlemagne
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Religious Thought in the last Quarter-Century

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1958-08-29
Active to: 2009-06-25

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Listeners: 551
Total plays: 4,517

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5 total works indexed

Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,522x
Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,444x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
Molecular portraits of human breast tumours
· 2000 · cited 12,605x
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,037x

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Quotes

“Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”
“Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?”
“Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.”
“The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play.”
“"Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said."Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."”
“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.”

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Key facts

Born: Shirley Hardie Jackson , ( 1916-12-14 ) December 14, 1916, San Francisco, California , U.S.
Died: August 8, 1965 (1965-08-08) (aged 48), North Bennington, Vermont , U.S.
Occupation: Writer
Education: University of Rochester , Syracuse University ( BA )
Genre: Horror mystery gothic
Years active: 1943–1965
Notable works: " The Lottery ", Life Among the Savages , The Haunting of Hill House , We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Spouse: Stanley Edgar Hyman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1940 )

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Article

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.

Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York City and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town". The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College.