The Boston Globe, July 17th, 1988
PRIVATE DEMONS The Life of Shirley Jackson, By Judy Oppenheimer. Putnam. 304 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. It's difficult to get through high school English without encountering "The Lottery," that laconic chiller about a New England village that, each summer, selects one of its citizens to stone to death. Shirley Jackson apparently wrote the story in less than two hours, having just returned to her home in Bennington, Vt., after the morning's errands. She later said that the piece she mailed to her agent the next day "was almost word for word the original draft." She had no idea that she'd just po...
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