(1919 – 1965) Haunted explorer of the dark recesses of American life, Jackson discovered horrific dimensions of family, marriage and community in novels like We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1953). She provides a chilling rearrangement of American values of individual responsibility collective identity and freedom in her classic story “The Lottery” (1949), read by generations of American students. Personal reminiscence and a selection of her unpublished stories were made available under the editorship of her children, L. Hyman and S. Stewart, in the 1995 collection Just an Ordinary Day.