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Shirley Jackson's stories and books arose out of the complex, sad, and joyous magic of her life. Often her stories were based on her own family or sick little customary romances, well suited for the magazines she wrote for. Jackson's restrictive upbringing created a struggle within her to both fulfill and deny the ways of her mother, to whom appearance and social acceptance was all important. Jackson, an odd, plain girl rejected the gracious country-club lifestyle of her family. She would laugh at it and rebel against it throughout her childhood in San Francisco, CA to her college years in New York.

Jackson graduated from college in 1940, receiving a BA in English. In 1941 she published her first book "My Life with R. H. Macy" for $25. She married Stanley Edgar Hyman, also a writer and they moved to a secluded shack in New Hampshire where they both focused on writing. By 1945 they moved again to a town near North Bennington, Vermont where she obtained a job teaching at......

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