Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an American writer best known for horror and mystery, whose work across two decades includes six novels, two memoirs and more than 200 short stories. Born in San Francisco in 1916, she is remembered for the short story "The Lottery", which drew wide attention, and for The Haunting of Hill House from 1959, a ghost novel. Her final novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), is a Gothic psychological horror story. She died in 1965 at the age of 48.