Throughout time authors have used inspiration from other writers, life experiences, and personal life moments. Shirley Jackson was a very unique author and used everything from her life to inspire her writing. Not only did her family impact her writing but also the events going on in her time, and the way humanity is. Shirley Jackson started off writing when she was young. She used events from her life to influence her writing and it paid off. She became one of the most respected writers of her time. People weren’t always of what she wrote due to the fact that it was always something strange. Even though Shirley Jackson wrote some bizarre stories, she used elements from her life and time period to influence her writing.
Shirley Jackson not only got support from her family, but was also inspired by them. Shirley Jackson met Stanley Edgar Hyman while she attended Syracuse University. She later married him and moved to New York with him. They had four children together and Shirley Jackson became a stay at home mom but never stopped writing (Shirley Jackson’s Bio). While she raised her children, she was inspired. She first
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Her family was able to transition into her stories, time period influenced her writing, and humanity helped her decided how her characters would act. The support from her family was important because she was able to use them to get her more well known. The time period was one of the most important things. It put her name on the map. After writing the lottery, she didn’t receive a great response right away. It took a while for the audience to appreciate a well written short story. After people realized how great it was, she was considered a great writer. Most authors use imagination as inspiration, Shirley Jackson was a very unique author in the sense that she used her life and events in her life as her biggest