Book Review: The Letters of Shirley Jackson

 

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

by Shirley Jackson

 Random House Publishing Group - Random House 

Pub Date 13 Jul 2021

 Biographies & Memoirs  |  Literary Fiction 

I am reviewing a copy of The Letters of Shirley Jackson through Random House Publishing and NetGalley:

If you’re looking to get a deeper look into the life of one of the most influential writers of thee past 100 years, then I highly recommend The Letters of Shirley Jackson.

The letters in this book were written of the spam of three decades, from her college years, to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote. As well as being a bestselling author, Jackson spent much of her adult life as a mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is often the everyday: raucous holidays and trips to the dentist, overdue taxes and frayed lines of Christmas lights, new dogs and new babies. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. At the same time, many of these letters provide fresh insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson’s writing over nearly three decades.

For those who like myself want to know, more about the lives of authors, in this case it is Shirley Jackson’s life we get to look into, I highly recommend The Letters of Shirley Jackson.

I give The Letters of Shirley Jackson five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!