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Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
Shirley Jackson
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Shirley Jackson
Age: 48 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 8
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Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Shirley Hardie Jackson
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