Editing Shirley Jackson (section)

==Early life==
Jackson was born December 14, 1916,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/shirley_h_jackson_born_1916_351511|title=Shirley H Jackson, Born 12/14/1916 in California|website=CaliforniaBirthIndex.org|access-date=October 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shirleyjackson.org/|title=Shirley Jackson's Bio|website=shirleyjackson.org|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref> in [[San Francisco]], California, to Leslie Jackson and his wife Geraldine (née Bugby).{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=12|ref=none}}{{efn|Jackson would later claim to have been born in 1919 to appear younger than her husband, though she was in fact born in 1916. Most biographical material published in Jackson's lifetime reports the 1919 date.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvyM5NgXopAC&q=1916+oppenheimer+%22shirley+jackson%22&pg=PA262 |last=Joshi |first=S. T. |author-link=S. T. Joshi |title=The Modern Weird Tale |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-786-40986-0}}</ref>}}

Jackson was raised in [[Burlingame, California]], an affluent [[suburb]] of San Francisco, where her family resided in a two-story home located at 1609 Forest View Road.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=28}} Her relationship with her mother was strained, as her parents had married young and Geraldine had been disappointed when she immediately became pregnant with Shirley, as she had been looking forward to "spending time with her dashing husband".{{sfn|Oppenheimer|1988|p=13}} Jackson was often unable to fit in with other children and spent much of her time writing, much to her mother's distress. Geraldine made no attempt to hide her favoritism towards her son, Barry, who explained his mother's antagonism towards Shirley by saying, "[Geraldine] was just a deeply conventional woman who was horrified by the idea that her daughter was not going to be deeply conventional."{{sfn|Franklin|2016<!-- |p=? -->}} When Shirley was a teenager, her weight fluctuated, resulting in a lack of confidence that she would struggle with throughout her life.<ref name=lat/>{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=14}}

She attended [[Burlingame High School (California)|Burlingame High School]], where she played [[violin]] in the school orchestra.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=24}} During her senior year of high school, the Jackson family relocated to [[Rochester, New York]],{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=24}} after which she attended [[Brighton High School (Rochester, New York)|Brighton High School]], receiving her diploma in 1934.<ref name="D&C Let Me Tell You"/> She then attended the nearby [[University of Rochester]], where her parents felt they could maintain supervision over her studies.{{sfn|Oppenheimer|1988|p=37}} Jackson was unhappy in her classes there,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Earle |first1=Melanie |title=From the Archives: Shirley Jackson's mysterious time at UR |url=http://www.campustimes.org/2021/02/14/from-the-archives-shirley-jacksons-mysterious-time-at-ur/ |access-date=April 5, 2022 |work=Rochester [[Campus Times]] |date=February 14, 2021}}</ref><ref name="rochester-1938">{{cite news |last1=Ver Steeg |first1=Jim |title=Year's top books share roots in University archives |url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/years-top-books-share-roots-in-university-archives-206242/ |access-date=April 5, 2022 |work= Newscenter |publisher=[[University of Rochester]]  |quote=Best known for her short story “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson studied for a time at Rochester but left in 1936 during her sophomore year. This student ID card puts her in the class of 1938. |date=December 20, 2016}}</ref> and took a year-long hiatus from her studies before transferring to [[Syracuse University]], where she flourished both creatively and socially.{{sfn|Oppenheimer|1988|p=56}} Here she received her bachelor's degree in journalism.{{sfn|Oppenheimer|1988|p=61}} While a student at Syracuse, Jackson became involved with the campus [[literary magazine]], through which she met her future husband, [[Stanley Edgar Hyman]], who later became a noted [[literary critic]].{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=65}} While attending Syracuse, the university's literary magazine published Jackson's first story, "Janice", about a teenager's suicide attempt.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=58}}