It has taken a while for the world to catch up to the disturbing works of Shirley Jackson. Much of these letters came into Hyman’s hands decades ago in the 1970s, when his grandmother passed them down to him. Hyman’s hopes with these letters are to let Jackson have an autobiography of sorts. “My job was just to let my mother talk,” he says. If The Letters of Shirley Jackson is to be the author’s autobiography, it is one that reminds us that writers are always far more multiple than their literary output, public personae, and heralds would imply.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2021 06:22 UTC