![]() ![]() Jackson was subject to her husband’s controlling behavior for years, during which she developed agoraphobia and a dependency on prescription drugs even as her dark (and darkly funny) literary novels The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle gained her renown in the literary world. Jackson and Hyman lived in New York and then Vermont, where Hyman taught at Bennington College in the town of North Bennington, Jackson felt out-of-place and secluded, and struggled to gain respect and recognition from her husband as her own literary career flourished. At Syracuse University, she became involved with the campus literary magazine and there met her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, who would go on to become a noted literary critic. ![]() After her family moved across the country to Rochester, New York, Jackson attended University of Rochester and Syracuse University. ![]() She had a difficult childhood marked by loneliness and a difficult relationship with her parents. Shirley Jackson was born in 1916 in San Francisco, California and raised in Burlingame, a middle-class Bay Area suburb. ![]()
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