Shirley Jackson was an author who was best known for the 1948 short story The Lottery.
=== Critical assessment ===Lenemaja Friedman's Shirley Jackson (Twayne Publishers, 1975) was the first published survey of Jackson's life and work
 Her following novel, The Sundial, was published four years later and concerned a family of wealthy eccentrics who believe they have been chosen to survive the end of the world

