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Born on December 14, 1916 in San Francisco, California, like her literature, Shirley Hardie Jackson's childhood was full of aberrations and contradictions that would deeply mark the writer. Her mother, Geraldine, went so far as to say that she did not have to be born. The reason she gave was because she needed to spend more time with her handsome husband. In contrast to her mother's personality, little Shirley had problems socializing with her peers. To her mother's chagrin, she preferred to isolate herself in order to write. She asked herself questions like her character, the teenage Merricat de Jackson. The Road Through the Wall (1948):