“I frankly confess to being completely baffled by Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery,’ ” she wrote in a letter to the editor after reading the story. An exact contemporary of Jackson’s-both women were born in 1916-she had recently left her job as a corporate librarian to care for her infant son, and she was a faithful reader of The New Yorker.
When Shirley Jackson’s story “ The Lottery” was first published, in the June 26, 1948, issue of this magazine, Miriam Friend was a young mother living in Roselle, New Jersey, with her husband, a chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
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