# Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (San Francisco, 14 de desembre de 1916 – 8 d'agost de 1965) fou una escriptora estatunidenca especialitzada en el gènere de terror. Va influir fortament en autors com Stephen King, Nigel Kneale i Richard Matheson.
El seu relat més conegut és possiblement «The Lottery» (1948), que suggereix l'existència d'un tètric i estremidor submón en les petites ciutats de l'Amèrica profunda. El conte es publicà el 28 de juny de 1948 en The New Yorker i donà origen a centenars de commocionades cartes per part dels lectors.
La seva producció literària inclou sis novel·les, dos llibres autobiogràfics, nombrosos assajos, més de cent relats i unes quantes històries infantils.
L'escriptora americana no va rebre bones crítiques en vida. Els seus primers textos es van publicar en revistes sota el perfil d'escriptora ocasional, esposa i mare de quatre fills, que s'entretenia escrivint en les seves estones lliures.

### Obra publicada

Novel·les
* The Road Through the Wall (1948)
* Hangsaman (1951)
* The Bird's Nest (1954)
* The Sundial (1958)
* The Haunting of Hill House (1959), traduïda al català com a La maledicció de Hill House per Martí Sales amb L'Altra (2014)
* We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), traduïda al català com a Sempre hem viscut al castell per Martí Sales i Sariola amb L'Altra (2016).
Memòries
* Life Among the Savages (1953)
* Raising Demons (1957)
Antologia de contes
* The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
* The Magic of Shirley Jackson (Farrar, Straus, 1966)
* Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968)
* Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
Contes infantils
* The Witchcraft of Salem Village (1956)
* The Bad Children (1959)
* Nine Magic Wishes (1963)
* Famous Sally (1966)
Relats breus (llista no exhaustiva)
* "About Two Nice People", Ladies' Home Journal, July 1951
* "Account Closed", Good Housekeeping, April 1950
* "After You, My Dear Alphonse", The New Yorker, Jan. 1943
* "Afternoon in Linen", The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 1943
* "All the Girls Were Dancing", Collier's, Nov. 11, 1950
* "All She Said Was Yes", Vogue, Nov. 1, 1962
* "Alone in a Den of Cubs", Woman's Day, Dec. 1953
* "Aunt Gertrude", Harper's, April 1954
* "The Bakery", Peacock Alley, Nov. 1944
* "Birthday Party", Vogue, Jan. 1, 1963
* "The Box", Woman's Home Companion, Nov. 1952
* "Bulletin", The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, March 1954
* "Call Me Ishmael", Spectre, Fall 1939
* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair", Mademoiselle, Dec. 1944
* "Charles", Mademoiselle, July 1948
* "The Clothespin Dolls", Woman's Day, March 1953
* "Colloquy", The New Yorker, Aug. 5, 1944
* "Come Dance with Me in Ireland", The New Yorker, May 15, 1943
* "Concerning … Tomorrow", Syracusan, March 1939
* "The Daemon Lover ['The Phantom Lover']", Woman's Home Companion, Feb. 1949
* "Daughter, Come Home", Charm, May 1944
* "Day of Glory", Woman's Day, Feb. 1953
* "Don't Tell Daddy", Woman's Home Companion, Feb. 1954
* "Every Boy Should Learn to Play the Trumpet", Woman's Home Companion, Oct. 1956
* "Family Magician", Woman's Home Companion, Sept. 1949
* "A Fine Old Firm", The New Yorker, March 4, 1944
* "The First Car Is the Hardest", Harper's, Feb. 1952
* "The Friends", Charm, Nov. 1953
* "The Gift", Charm, Dec. 1944
* "A Great Voice Stilled", Playboy, March 1960
* "Had We But World Enough", Spectre, Spring 1940
* "Happy Birthday to Baby", Charm, Nov. 1952
* "Home", Ladies' Home Journal, Aug. 1965
* "The Homecoming", Charm, April 1945
* "The House", Woman's Day, May 1952
* "I Don't Kiss Strangers", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
* "An International Incident", The New Yorker, Sept. 12, 1943
* "I.O.U.", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
* "The Island," New Mexico Quarterly Review, 1950, vol. 3
* "It Isn't the Money", The New Yorker, Aug. 25, 1945
* "It's Only a Game", Harper's, May 1956
* "Journey with a Lady", Harper's, July 1952
* "Liaison a la Cockroach", Syracusan, April 1939
* "Little Dog Lost", Charm, Oct. 1943
* "A Little Magic", Woman's Home Companion, Jan. 1956
* "Little Old Lady", Mademoiselle, Sept. 1944
* "The Lottery", The New Yorker, June 26, 1948
* "Louisa, Please Come Home", Ladies' Home Journal, May 1960
* "The Lovely Night", Collier's, April 8, 1950
* "Lucky to Get Away", Woman's Day, Aug. 1953
* "The Man in the Woods", The New Yorker, April 28, 2014
* "Men with Their Big Shoes", Yale Review, March 1947
* "The Missing Girl", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec. 1957
* "Monday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, Nov. 1951
* "The Most Wonderful Thing", Good Housekeeping, June 1952
* "Mother Is a Fortune Hunter", Woman's Home Companion, May 1954
* "Mrs. Melville Makes a Purchase", Charm, Oct. 1951
* "My Friend", Syracusan, Dec. 1938
* "My Life in Cats", Spectre, Summer 1940
* "My Life with R.H. Macy", The New Republic, Dec. 22, 1941
* "My Son and the Bully", Good Housekeeping, Oct. 1949
* "Nice Day for a Baby", Woman's Home Companion, July 1952
* "Night We All Had Grippe", Harper's, Jan. 1952
* "Nothing to Worry About", Charm, July 1953
* "The Omen", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1958
* "On the House", The New Yorker, Oct. 30, 1943
* "One Last Chance to Call", McCall's, April 1956
* "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan. 1955
* "The Order of Charlotte's Going", Charm, July 1954
* "Pillar of Salt", Mademoiselle, Oct. 1948
* "Paranoia", The New Yorker, August 5, 2013
* "The Possibility of Evil", The Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1965
* "Queen of the May", McCall's, April 1955
* "The Renegade", Harper's, Nov. 1949
* "Root of Evil", Fantastic, March–April 1953
* "The Second Mrs. Ellenoy", Reader's Digest, July 1953
* "Seven Types of Ambiguity", Story, 1943
* "Shopping Trip", Woman's Home Companion, June 1953
* "The Smoking Room", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
* "The Sneaker Crisis", Woman's Day, Oct. 1956
* "So Late on Sunday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, Sept. 1953
* "The Strangers", Collier's, May 10, 1952
* "Strangers in Town", The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959
* "Summer Afternoon", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
* "The Summer People", Charm, 1950
* "The Third Baby's the Easiest", Harper's, May 1949
* "The Tooth", The Hudson Review, 1949, vol. 1, no. 4
* "Trial by Combat", The New Yorker, Dec. 16, 1944
* "The Very Strange House Next Door", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
* "The Villager", The American Mercury, Aug. 1944
* "Visions of Sugarplums", Woman's Home Companion, Dec. 1952
* "When Things Get Dark", The New Yorker, Dec. 30, 1944
* "Whistler's Grandmother", The New Yorker, May 5, 1945
* "The Wishing Dime", Good Housekeeping, Sept. 1949
* "Worldly Goods", Woman's Day, May 1953
* "Y and I", Syracusan, Oct. 1938
* "Y and I and the Ouija Board", Syracusan, Nov. 1938
* "The Witch", 1949

## Premis i reconeixements

* 1949 - Premi O. Henry Award 1949: «The Lottery»
* 1961 - Nominació al Premi Edgar Award com a millor relat curt, atorgat per Mystery Writers of America: "Louisa, Please Come Home»
* 1960 - Nominació al Premi Nacional del Llibre: The Haunting of Hill House
* 1962 - Una de les deu millors novel·les de 1962, segons la revista Time: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
* 1966 - Premi Edgar Award com a millor relat curt: «The Possibility of Evil»

## Referències

* ↑ «Shirley Jackson» (en anglès). Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Consulta: 8 juny 2020].
* ↑ Pagès Jordà, Vicenç «Els fantasmes som nosaltres». Cultura (El Punt Avui), 12-12-2014, p. 3.

## Bibliografia

* King, Stephen. Danse Macabre. Everest House, 1981.
* Kittredge, Mary. "The Other Side of Magic: A Few Remarks About Shirley Jackson", in Darrell Schweitzer ed., Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, July 1985, pp. 3–12.
* Kosenko, Peter. "A Reading of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Arxivat 2020-08-12 a Wayback Machine.. New Orleans Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 27–32.
* Murphy, Bernice. Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy.
* Oppenheimer, Judy. Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson. New York: Putnam, 1988.
* Shapiro, Laura. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
* Shirley Jackson Papers. Library of Congress, Washington DC.