Shirley Jackson

‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson: Short Story Analysis ‘The Lottery’ is a puritanical short story with a macabre twist penned in 1948 by American writer Shirley Jackson. The story is one of Jackson's best pieces that took America by storm when published in ‘The New Yorker’ magazine in June 1948. People were outraged by the hauntingly unnerving twist in this otherwise … [Read more...] about ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson: Short Story Analysis