8.Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

　　露丝·弗兰克林《雪莉·杰克逊：困扰的人生》

　　Known best for her 1948 story The Lottery, and her novels The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), Shirley Jackson wrote literary suspense in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and Henry James. Franklin tracks Jackson's mythmaking life from her girlhood in a northern Californian suburb through her marriage to literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman with whom she had four children.

　　雪莉·杰克逊的悬疑作品沿袭了霍桑、坡和享利·詹姆斯的风格，她最著名的作品是1948年的故事《彩票》及小说《山宅鬼惊魂》(1959)。弗兰克林追溯了杰克逊神奇的人生经历，从她在加州北部的少女时光，写到她的婚姻，又写到和她一起生育了四个孩子的文学批评家斯坦利·爱德加·海曼。