![]() The move is very hard on Shirley, who misses California and her friends there, especially her best friend, Dorothy Ayling. The Jacksons quickly join the Rochester Country Club and become well-established in the city’s active society world. But when she is sixteen, Leslie is promoted and trans ferred, and the family moves-luxuriously, by ship, through the Panama Canal-to Rochester, in upstate New York. ![]() ![]() Shirley grows up primarily in Burlingame, an upper-middle-class sub urb south of the city. Her mother, Geraldine, is a proud descendant of a long line of famous San Francisco architects and can trace her ancestry back to before the Revolutionary War. Her father, Leslie, emigrated from England at age twelve with his mother and two sisters and became a successful self-made business executive with the largest lithography company in the city. ![]() Shirley Jackson is born in San Francisco, California, on December 14, 1916. ![]()
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