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Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), a theoretical physicist, was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. at MIT. In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed her as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During her tenure, Jackson has instit...

Shirley Jackson is most often associated with the chilling short story "The Lottery". First published in The New Yorker in 1948, it immediately met with an unprecedented public reaction, generating a tremendous amount of mail, almost all of it negative....

Shirley Jackson's name is most often associated in readers' minds with the haunting short story "The Lottery," which was originally published in 1948 and has since become a frequently anthologized American classic. To those familiar with the rest of Jack...

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1919. She grew up in California until 1933, when her family moved to Rochester, New York. In 1934 Jackson enrolled at the University of Rochester. She soon left...

"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 28, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. The only change New Yorker editors made to Jackson's original manuscript was to alter the date in the story to make it one day before the...

One New Yorker pulled totally out of the stock market a month ago, thus reaping a $200 million profit and avoiding this week's Wall Street disaster. Another New Yorker lost millions-perhaps including some of his own-when the bottom dropped out of the Dow. ...

"It's Winsday", Camelot's new campaign triumphantly declares. The National Lottery operator is spending pounds 8 million to persuade us to play its new mid-week lottery draw. Success, however, may not be easily bought: Camelot must combat not only the growing number other ways to...

Recently, the Mega Millions multi-state lottery jackpot climbed to over $370 million before two tickets matched the winning numbers. As a jackpot like that starts to swell, people will begin to use their imaginations to describe what they would do with the money if they...

Gerald Wallace didn't care that a win might have hurt the Charlotte Bobcats in the long run. Wallace scored 31 points and the Bobcats beat the Atlanta Hawks 101-87 on Wednesday night to set a franchise record with their 27th win, one more than last...

In the following essay, Hall contends that the stories in The Lottery and Other Stories, originally published as The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris, form a loosely connected larger work whose major theme is the sense in its main characters of being lost and alone.

In the following essay, Terry and Williams include “The Lottery” in a discussion of examples of literature that demonstrates lessons in medical ethics.

In the following lecture, Jackson discusses public reaction to the original publication of “The Lottery” in the New Yorker.

"The Lottery" is a gripping tale of a small town occurrence and an everyday problem. Jackson did a wonderful job of bringing meaning to this story through symbolism and common themes, and it all pulls together really well in creating a terrible situation that nobody expects.

Examines the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson. Analyzes how Jackson uses symbolism as a tool in this story. Explores the symbolism of certain objects and the consequences of these symbols.

Discusses the Shirley Jackson short story, the Lottery. Maintains that Jackson wote the short story to criticize the society of the 1940s and to illustrate the pointless violence and general inhumanity in her reader's own lives.