“Shirley and Stanley lived with their children and 30,000 books in a rambling Victorian house near the post office in the village where Shirley had so memorably set her classic 1948 short story, ‘The Lottery.’
“Shirley did the family driving, the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning, the childcare and the creative writing. Stanley did his courses, his articles, his books of literary theory, and the collections –- he had world-class collections of jazz records and ancient coins — on which he was an authority.”
Nothing more intriguing than a literary critic and his famous author wife shacking up in Gothic splendor. . .
At the Wall Street Journal, Patricia Highsmith’s biographer writes a lovely reminiscence of her time at Bennington, under the tutelage of Stanley Hyman and his famous wife, Shirley Jackson.
(Via: Maud Newton)
