Birth Name: Shirley Hardie Jackson
Date of Birth: December 14, 1916
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, US
Date of Death: August 8, 1965
Place of Death: North Bennington, Vermont, U.S.
Ethnicity: English
Shirley Jackson was an American author. She is known for her horror and mystery fiction, including the novels The Haunting of Hill House and the story “The Lottery.”
Shirley was the daughter of Geraldine Maxwell (Bugby) and Leslie Hardie Jackson. She was married to literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, until her death, with whom she had four children.
Shirley’s maternal grandfather was Maxwell Greene Bugbee (the son of John Stephenson Bugee and Annie Maxwell Greene). John was a prominent lawyer in San Francisco, and a Superior Court Judge in Alaska. John was the son of Samuel Charles Bugbee, an architect, from New Brunswick, whose designs included the homes of industrialists Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, and the Mendocino Presbyterian Church; and of Abbie Stephenson, who was from Maine.
Shirley’s maternal grandmother was named Evangeline “Mimi” Field (the daughter of Chauncey Field and Julia).
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