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	Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Shirley Ann Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shirley Ann Jackson is a theoretical physicist who has spent her career researching and teaching about particle physics —the branch of physics which uses theories and mathematics to predict the existence of subatomic particles and the forces that bind them together.
		Jackson's area of interest in physics is the study of the subatomic particles found within atoms, the tiny units of which all matter is made.
		Jackson is an active voice in numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Science Foundation, where her aim has been to actively promote women in science.
	www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/jackson_s.htm (972 words)

	Salon \| Monstrous acts and little murders
		It was Jackson's fate, as a faculty wife and an eccentric newcomer in a staid, insular village, to absorb the reflexive antisemitism and anti-intellectualism felt by the townspeople toward the college.
		This half of Jackson was a character she brought brilliantly to life in her stories and novels from the beginning: the shy girl, whose identity slips all too easily from its foundations.
		The other half of Jackson was the expulsive iconoclast, brought out of her shell by marriage to Hyman — himself a garrulous egoist very much in the tradition of Jewish '50's New York intellectuals — and by the visceral shock of mothering a quartet of noisy, demanding babies.
	www.salon.com /jan97/jackson970106.html (533 words)

	Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jackson received a BS degree in physics in 1968, and a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics in 1973, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Jackson was a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995.
		Jackson holds 33 honorary degrees, was awarded the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Science in 1993, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1998, and named a fellow of the Association for Women in Science in 2004.
	www.marathon.com /About_Us/Board_of_Directors/Dr_Shirley_Ann_Jackson (255 words)

	DarkEcho: SHIRLEY JACKSON
		Shirley Jackson was an anomaly in her generation.
		Shirley Jackson did not bring dismay or ruin lives with poison-pen letters, but her stories do send a "message of evil" to the world.
		It was assembled by two of her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart, from a "carton of cobwebbed files discovered in a Vermont barn," copies of old magazines, and 26 cartons of Jackson's papers in the Library of Congress.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/darkthot/jackson.html (2187 words)

	Shirley Jackson
		Shirley Jackson is a contradiction, or perhaps just the other side of the idea of an author who fails to make any impression during their lifetime, and is only later discovered by a new generation.
		Ms Jackson is an author who was successful both popularly and critically in her short working life, who is now almost forgotten, a thing both unreasonable and criminal.
		To say Shirley Jackson is a psychological novelist, and that the horror in her stories comes from the increasingly skewed perceptions of her protagonists, fails to suggest the sheer power these vision have.
	www.tabula-rasa.info /DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html (2219 words)

	Shirley Ann Jackson
		Shirley Ann Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1946.
		Jackson had been accepted at another institution for her graduate work, but chose to remain at MIT and encourage the enrollment of more fl students there.
		Jackson became a Research Associate in Theoretical Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1973_1974 and served as a Visiting Science Associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (1974_1975).
	www.strawberrylady.com /blackhistory/jackson/ShirleyAnnJackson.htm (543 words)

	Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
		In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948 issue of the New Yorker it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received": hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by "bewilderment, speculation, and old-fashioned abuse."
		Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, has written in his introduction to a posthumous anthology of her short stories that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements."
		I think we need to take seriously Shirley Jackson's suggestion that the world of the lottery is her reader's world, however reduced in scale for the sake of economy.
	www.netwood.net /~kosenko/jackson.html (4369 words)

	Mundane Evil
		Jackson graduated from Syracuse University in 1940 and married the American literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman.
		Their light, comic tone contrasts sharply with the dark pessimism of Jackson's other works, whose general theme is the presence of evil and chaos just beneath the surface of ordinary, everyday life.
		Jackson's six finished novels, especially The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), further established her reputation as a master of gothic horror and psychological suspense.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/sjackson (181 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lottery: And Other Stories: Books: Shirley Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jackson deals with very serious subjects, and the illumination provided by her unusual perspectives on life is vivid and poignant.
		Shirley Jackson is a rare treasure whose work is on par with such exceptional short story writers as John Cheever and J.D. Sallinger.
		Jackson's stories on the surface may seem like simple tales of domestic life, but she is one of the slyest observors of the quiet desperation that envelops most lives.
	www.amazon.com /Lottery-Other-Stories-Shirley-Jackson/dp/0374516812 (2167 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Nov 1999 - Shirley Ann Jackson
		Her father, a postal supervisor, and her mother, a social worker, encouraged Jackson to pursue her passions ("You have to aim for the stars to reach the treetops," her father would quip), and her siblings, two sisters and a brother, all recognized her natural talents for leadership.
		And Jackson's evenhanded treatment of explosive nuclear regulatory issues has earned her respect from public safety watchdogs and members of the nuclear industry alike; she is credited with wisely resolving some of the toughest dilemmas the NRC has ever faced.
		Jackson entered the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at one of the lowest points in its history, with a wary public distrustful that the agency charged with overseeing the safe use of nuclear materials might be too cozy with the industry.
	www.prism-magazine.org /nov99/html/profile.htm (1711 words)

	Shirley Jackson - Short Stories
		Although Jackson’s works are assumed to be primarily about the supernatural, most of her stories dwelt on the conundrum of the human psyche, the contradiction of nice people doing horrible things, the evolving of a mind into madness, the mundaneness of evil.
		On the surface, Jackson’s life was ordinary (although she was known to dabble in voodoo and witchcraft).
		Jackson did not limit her prose to horror, and a few years after “Lottery”, she published a humorous account of her domestic life in Life Among the Savages.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art5582.asp (448 words)

	Shirley Jackson Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Shirley Jackson, novelist and short-story writer, were given to the Library of Congress in 1967 by Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman.
		Part II of the papers of Shirley Jackson covers the period from 1932 to 1970, with the bulk of the material dated between 1938 and 1965.
		Files containing Jackson's professional correspondence with her agents and publishers, especially the publishing firm of Farrar, Straus and Young, and her literary agents, Brandt and Brandt and the Music Corporation of America, identify the editorial choices and corporate marketing decisions that contributed to the shaping and promotion of Jackson's literary career.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/jackson.html (1863 words)

	RPI: Profile of Shirley Ann Jackson, President
		Jackson’s career prior to becoming Rensselaer’s president encompassed senior positions in government, as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former ATandT Bell Laboratories; and in academe, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University.
		Jackson is past President (2004) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and former Chairman (2005) of the AAAS Board of Directors.
		Jackson was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1998 for her significant and profound contributions as a distinguished scientist and advocate for education, science, and public policy.
	www.rpi.edu /president/profile.html (1466 words)

	Amazon.com: Road Through the Wall: Books: Shirley Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shirley Jackson is often described as a "Horror" writer; however, her power comes not from horrible bloody descriptions but rather from very down tuned, indifferent, every-day descriptions to the most vicious acts.
		In fact, Shirley Jackson herself said that the book was written, at least partly, to get back at her parents, so some of it has to be a life she knew.
		The premise of the story is fairly simple: Jackson paints a portrait of a well-to-do middle class neighborhood, shining her blinding light of truth on everyone.
	www.amazon.com /Road-Through-Wall-Shirley-Jackson/dp/044503128X (1722 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Lottery and Shirley Jackson
		Shirley Jackson’s own life has serious effects on her writings, especially on “The Lottery.” Her early life was not a peaceful one.
		The name of Jackson's victim links her to Anne Hutchinson, whose Antinomian beliefs, found to be heretical by the Puritan hierarchy, resulted in her banishment from Massachusetts in 1638.
		Indeed most of Jackson's protagonists are emotionally violated and must struggle desperately to overcome their estrangement and dislocation, and most of them fail.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5000.php (1079 words)

	Look What I Found In My Brain!: Shirley Jackson
		Shirley Jackson was an acclaimed short story author and novelist whose work has influenced a wide range of current writers from Stephen King to Kelly Link.
		Jackson's is a brooding, gothic country manor whose skewed architectural lines reflect the twisted madness of the man who built it.
		Jackson expects that her readers are intelligent, fully capable of comprehending a metaphor, and in possession of an adult's attention span.
	www.sff.net /people/lucy-snyder/brain/2006/01/shirley-jackson.html (947 words)

	Shirley Jackson - Physicist of the African Diaspora
		Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, DC.
		From 1976 to 1991 Dr. Jackson was appointed as Professor of Physics at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. In 1995, when she was appointed head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by President Bill Clinton.
		In December of 2002, Jackson was elected president-elect (2003) of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/physics/jackson_shirleya.html (1025 words)

	Amazon.fr : Just an Ordinary Day: Livres en anglais: Shirley Jackson,Sarah H. Stewart,Laurence Jackson Hyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The late Shirley Jackson (1919-65) is the author of the classic short story, "The Lottery," a dark, unforgettable tale of the unthinking and murderous customs of a small New England town.
		For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast: more than half of the 54 short stories collected here have never been published before.
		According to Jackson's children, "a carton of cobwebbed files discovered in a Vermont barn" arrived in the mail one day without notice; along with the original manuscript of her novel, the box contained six unpublished stories.
	www.amazon.fr /Just-Ordinary-Day-Shirley-Jackson/dp/0553378333 (688 words)

	Shirley Jackson (physicist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is a famous African-American physicist, and 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		From 1991 to 1995 Dr. Jackson was a Professor of Physics at Rutgers University in Piscataway and New Brunswick, New Jersey.
		Shirley Jackson is married to Doctor Morris Washington, a physics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has one son, Alan, a Dartmouth College alumnus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirley_Jackson_(physicist) (1245 words)

	Fiction: Shirley Jackson
		Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) was born in San Francisco, California, her mother a housewife and her father an employee of a lithographing company.
		Jackson's first national publication was a humorous story written after a job at a department store during the Christmas rush: "My Life with R. Macy" appeared in The New Republic in 1941.
		Jackson's best-known work, "The Lottery," is often dramatized, and televised.
	bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/Jackson.htm (290 words)

	Tolerance.org: WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Shirley Ann Jackson
		Jackson, though, has said she is less concerned with being first and more concerned in making sure young African American woman — and others who remain under-represented in the sciences — follow the paths trailblazed by woman such as her.
		Jackson won't be satisfied to go down in history as the "first fl woman" of anything, she says, unless the familiar phrase is followed by two more words: "of many."
		Jackson is credited with restoring faith to the NRC, drawing praise from agency critics and supporters alike.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1184 (651 words)

	The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
		Jackson says, “The whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner”.
		Jackson alludes to the numbing effects of habit as relevance to her short story.
		Prior to the creation of her short story, Jackson grew increasingly concerned about the homogenization of peoples due to the demands of capitalism, which were strengthening increasingly during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
	www.unc.edu /~getkara/Lottery/links.html (1421 words)

	Shirley Jackson St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Jackson generally refused to explain the meaning of the story, but suggested in private to at least one friend that anti-Semitism in North Bennington, Vermont was at its heart.
		Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916 (not 1919, as in some accounts), and grew up in California and in Rochester, New York.
		A sometime witch, Jackson claimed she could bring kitchen implements to the top of a drawer by "calling" them.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200592 (636 words)

	Board of Trustees, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Shirley Jackson (President) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jackson’s career prior to becoming Rensselaer’s president has encompassed senior positions in government, as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former ATandT Bell Laboratories; and in academe, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University.
		Jackson was Chairman of the NRC from 1995-1999.
		Jackson became the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in February 2004 and will chair the AAAS board in 2005.
	j2ee.rpi.edu /trustees/update.do?artcenterkey=68 (319 words)

	Shirley Jackson Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1965, Shirley Jackson died of heart failure, at the age of forty-eight.
		For twenty years and from various angles Jackson had built a reputation for quietly ripping the lid off life in Pleasantville; by the end, a tangle of physical and mental ailments made her feel unable to venture out into her own town of Bennington, Vermont.
		The other half of Jackson was the expulsive iconoclast, brought out of her shell by marriage to Hyman....
	todayinliterature.com /biography/shirley.jackson.asp (605 words)

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		The addition to the papers of Shirley Jackson covers the period from 1932 to 1970, with the bulk of the material dated between 1938 and 1965.
		Manuscripts and related papers reflecting the conception and development of many of her novels and short stories, which are highlighted in the original portion, are also included in the addition.
		Jackson met many of her most trusted friends and associates among a diverse group of young artists and writers while attending
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/ead/jackson.sgm (1198 words)

	Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.: Jackson Commemorates Shirley Chisholm
		Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., today said, "I have nothing but good thoughts and fond memories of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm who died yesterday at age 80.
		As a progressive, she proposed a bill to provide state aid to day-care centers and voted to increase funding for schools on a per-pupil basis.
		"On January 25, 1972, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for President and said: `I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States.
	www.house.gov /list/hearing/il02_jackson/050103Chisholm.html (395 words)

	Shirley Jackson
		Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, U. She studied at the University of Rochester (1934--36), and Syracuse University (B.A. Based in North Bennington, Vt., she wrote novels, short stories, and radio and television scripts.
		Take a close look at Jackson's description of the fl wooden box and of the fl spot on the fatal slip of paper.
		She assumes that the massacre of the Jews was carried out by unwitting, obedient people, like these villagers.
	www.k12.hi.us /~comlit/content/jackson.htm (377 words)

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