Ruth Franklin.
RUTH FRANKLIN
SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE (2016)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
Shirley Jackson (born 1916) was a prolific author, who wrote six novels, two memoirs, and more than to hundred short stories. She was known as a writer of horror and mystery. Her most famous work was The Lottery, a short story about the dark underworld of a rural American village. Jackson died of a heart condition in 1965 at the age of 48.
The New York Times wrote of Ruth Franklin’s biography of Jackson: "With this welcome new biography Franklin makes a thoughtful and persuasive case for Jackson as a serious and accomplished literary artist...[Franklin] sees Jackson not as an oddball, one-off writer of horror tales and ghost stories but as someone belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James, writers preoccupied, as she was, with inner evil in the human soul."
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Ruth Franklin graduated in English Language at Columbia University, and took a master’s degree in Comparative literature at Harvard University. she began her career as a literary critic at the New Republic. She became editor of the New Republic, and also an Adjunction Professor at New York University.
