Shirley Jackson was an acclaimed author best known for the influential 1948 short horror story The Lottery.
In 2009, critic Harold Bloom published an extensive study of Jackson's work, challenging the notion that it was worthy of inclusion in the Western canon; Bloom wrote of "The Lottery", specifically: "Her art of narration [stays] on the surface, and could not depict individual identities
 Ruth Franklin (Library of America, 2020)=== Short fiction ======= Collections ====The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)The Magic of Shirley Jackson (ed

