The biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) by Ruth Franlin won many awards and also renewed interest in reading Jackson s work. In recent years Shirley Jackson has gained in popularity and readership not least due to the successful and excellent The Haunting of Hill House (2018) TV-adaptation. Her masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House (1959) made her immortal as a gothic and horror writer, with both, the aforementioned short story and novel regarded among the best horror and literary writing of 20th century Americana. Hangsaman is Jackson s second novel following her debut The Road Through the Wall (1948) Her breakthrough came with the short story The Lottery, originally published in The New Yorker magazine (June 1948) and later included in the short-story anthology of the same name in 1949. It is clipped with a new USD 3 price stamped at the foot of the front flap as common. The dust jacket has small chips and shows typical edgwear.
There are no other scribbles inside the book and the text is clean throughout. The boards are a little rubbed to the edges with the spine tips lightly pushed. Condition: at least a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with little flaws commensurate with age. Thus, it is no surprise that Jackson would inscribe a copy for him.
Speirs and Shirley Jackson s husband Stanley Edgar Hyman new each other in the small literary critics circle. He contributed extensively to the influential quartely magazine Scrutiny (1932-1953) founded by F.R. Provenance: John Speirs was a British literary critic and author. Signed and inscribed by the author on the ffep: To John Speirs | with regards | Shirley Jackson | april 1951. Shirley Jackson (1951) Hangsaman, US first edition, first printing, published by Farrar, Starus and Young. Oates wrote a new introduction for The Folio Society edition of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevskyin 2021.Hardcover.
In 2010 she was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Together with her first husband she founded and edited a literary magazine, the Ontario Review, and an associated publishing house. Oates taught writing at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014. Her best-received fictions include the Wonderland Quartet (1967–71) – the third volume, Them, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970 – and Blonde (2000), a fictional treatment of the life of Marilyn Monroe, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Oates read widely in 19th-century fiction as a girl – and has cited Dostoyevsky as an early influence – before encountering classic works of modernism as a student at Syracuse University, all of which helped to shape her own writing. Since then, she has published a further 57 novels as well as many books of short stories, poems, plays and nonfiction. Joyce Carol Oates’ first novel, With Shuddering Fall, was published in 1964 when she was still in her twenties.
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