Biography: Shirley Ann Jackson of New York is the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Jackson received the B.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has ...

This is Shirley Ann Jackson’s final year at RPI and the school is honoring her with a week of tributes. Jackson has been the school’s leader for the last 23 years. She’s helped transform RPI into a ...

With stories like “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson was one of the great horror authors of the 20th century. In 2012, Ruth Franklin wrote a biography of the writer called ...