It doesn’t tie any shoes
Madeleine Schwartz: Shirley Jackson, 5 January 2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by Ruth Franklin.
Liveright, 585 pp., £25, October 2016,978 0 87140 313 1 Show More
by Ruth Franklin.
Liveright, 585 pp., £25, October 2016,
“... to anti-racist movements. At one point, Franklin describes the way Hyman and Jackson encouraged Ralph Ellison, a friend, to write when he didn’t yet trust his talent. (An earlier biography of Jackson by Judy Oppenheimer, Private Demons, takes a chattier approach and relies heavily on anecdotes provided by Jackson’s North Bennington neighbours and ... ”