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Category: Biography & Memoir
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016An NPR 2016's Great ReadA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Nylon Best Boo
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016An NPR 2016's Great ReadA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Nylon Best Book of 2016A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016A Booklist 2016 Editors' ChoiceIn this "thoughtful and persuasive" biography, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin establishes Shirley Jackson as a "serious and accomplished literary artist" (Charles McGrath, New York Times Book Review).
Instantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. In this "remarkable act of reclamation" (Neil Gaiman), Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as "belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James" (New York Times Book Review) and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon "so uncannily channeled women's nightmares and contradictions that it is 'nothing less than the secret history of American women of her era' " (Washington Post). Franklin investigates the "interplay between the life, the work, and the times with real skill and insight, making this fine book a real contribution not only to biography, but to mid-20th-century women's history" (Chicago Tribune). "Wisely rescu ing] Shirley Jackson from any semblance of obscurity" (Lena Dunham), Franklin's invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius.
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