Shirley Jackson was born in San Franciso on December 14,1916 and spent her childhood in Burlingame California, where she began writing poetry and short stories as a young teenager. And she died August 8,1965. Some of the Major Achievements that she did was the novels that she wrote they were, The Road Through the Wall- Shirley Jackson Published this book in 1948.It draes upon Jackson's own experiences growing up in Burlingame,California. This novel relates life on Pepper Street, a suburban,middle
Following a blind person, both people end up in a ditch. This was what the lottery, short story tried to explain. Shirley Jackson wrote the story in 1948, which was based in a small town setup where villagers participated in lottery game (Oakes, 2004). Shirley was born in 1919 in a family of literary artists and was one of the American influential authors of supernatural literatures such as Haunting hill house (Murphy, 2005). The lottery was her second book and although she was among the celebrated writers