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Shirley Jackson

1916 - 1965

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shirley Jackson is the 1,894th most popular writer (down from 1,885th in 2019), the 2,778th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,389th in 2019) and the 224th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shirley Jackson ranks 1,894 out of 7,302. Before her are Pjetër Bogdani, Émile Augier, João de Barros, Rómulo Gallegos, Margarete Buber-Neumann, and Hincmar. After her are Arthur Machen, Sulpicia, Branko Ćopić, Frederik Pohl, Anonymus, and Jacint Verdaguer.

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Among people born in 1916, Shirley Jackson ranks 85. Before her are Pierre Messmer, Pietro Rava, Stjepan Filipović, Archie Moore, Archduke Felix of Austria, and Manea Mănescu. After her are Ri Jong-ok, Ray Conniff, James Herriot, José Manuel Moreno, Mika Špiljak, and Jane Jacobs. Among people deceased in 1965, Shirley Jackson ranks 64. Before her are Taimur bin Feisal, José Mendes Cabeçadas, Humberto Delgado, Corrado Gini, Porfirio Rubirosa, and Oskar R. Lange. After her are Ladislas Starevich, Kōdō Sawaki, La Belle Otero, Harry Babcock, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, and Louis Harold Gray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Jackson ranks 2,778 out of 20,380. Before her are Loretta Lynch (1959), Elisha Cook Jr. (1903), Cab Calloway (1907), Priscilla Pointer (1924), Chris Noth (1954), and Tim McGraw (1967). After her are Billy Drago (1945), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Ella Grasso (1919), Jeb Bush (1953), Frederik Pohl (1919), and Dan Inosanto (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Shirley Jackson ranks 224. Before her are Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), Richard Ford (1944), Siri Hustvedt (1955), and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942). After her are Frederik Pohl (1919), E. E. Cummings (1894), John Barth (1930), Nelson Algren (1909), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), and Maria Shriver (1955).

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