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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/shirley-jackson-9351425</ref>  She grew up in nearby Burlingame, where she began to write poetry and short stories, until her family moved east and she attended the University of Rochester.<ref>http://shirleyjackson.org/</ref>  She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Syracuse, edited their magazine after it published her short story "Janice," married a literary critic, and moved to [[New York City]].<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/shirley-jackson</ref>  She was a famous creative woman in the early Cold War, writing the bestselling horror novel, ''The Haunting of Hill House,'' though her first piece was a short story in the ''New Yorker'' called "The Lottery," published a decade earlier.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2016/12/24/506643062/new-biography-chronicles-shirley-jacksons-rather-haunted-life</ref>  After the "Lottery" came several complete novels, including ''The Bird's Nest'', ''The Haunting of Hill House'', and ''We Have Always Lived in the Castle'', which concerned a sort of force of chaos hiding inside everyday life.<ref>"Jackson, Shirley."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/shirley-jackson-9351425</ref>  She grew up in nearby Burlingame, where she began to write poetry and short stories, until her family moved east and she attended the University of Rochester.<ref>http://shirleyjackson.org/</ref>  She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Syracuse, edited their magazine after it published her short story "Janice," married a literary critic, and moved to [[New York City]].<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/shirley-jackson</ref>  She was a famous creative woman in the early Cold War, writing the bestselling horror novel, ''The Haunting of Hill House,'' though her first piece was a short story in the ''New Yorker'' called "The Lottery," published a decade earlier.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2016/12/24/506643062/new-biography-chronicles-shirley-jacksons-rather-haunted-life</ref>  After the "Lottery" came several complete novels, including ''The Bird's Nest'', ''The Haunting of Hill House'', and ''We Have Always Lived in the Castle'', which concerned a sort of force of chaos hiding inside everyday life.<ref>"Jackson, Shirley."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

She died August 8, 1965 in Vermont of a heart attack.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/shirley-jackson-2851.php</ref>

She died August 8, 1965 in Vermont of a heart attack.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/shirley-jackson-2851.php</ref>