SOURCE: “Biography of a Story,” in Come Along with Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures, edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman, The Viking Press, 1960, pp. 211-25.
In the following lecture, Jackson discusses public reaction to the original publication of “The Lottery” in the New Yorker.
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