Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Name: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
ISBN: 9780871403131

by Ruth Franklin

National Book · 2016 · Winner

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Liveright PublishingSeptember 27, 2016Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9780871403131

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2016	Winner

About This Book

Ruth Franklin's biography of Shirley Jackson draws on her journals, letters, and manuscripts to show how the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle channeled her experience of misogyny and domestic captivity into her fiction. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Ruth FranklinAmerican

Ruth Franklin is an American literary critic and biographer who began her career at The New Republic in 1999 and later became an adjunct professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is best known for her award-winning biographies Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and The Many Lives of Anne Frank (2025), along with her earlier work A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2010). Read more →