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Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her groundbreaking work of hyperfiction, ''Patchwork Girl'' (1995). Her first novel was published in 2006, ''Half Life''. ==Biography== Born in the Philippines, Jackson grew up in Berkeley, California, where her family ran a small women's bookstore for several years; Jackson later recalled, "I was already in love with books by then....and the family store just confirmed what I already suspected, that books were the most interesting and important things in the world. Of course I wanted to write them!"〔Lynch, Megan. ("A Conversation with Shelley Jackson" ), ''Bold Type'' 5.12, May 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-01.〕 She graduated from Berkeley High School, and received a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. She is self-described as a "student in the art of digression".〔http://www.eastgate.com/people/Jackson.html〕 While at Brown, Jackson was taught by electronic literature advocates Robert Coover and George Landow. During one of Landow's lectures in 1993, Jackson began drawing "a naked woman with dotted-line scars" in her notebook, an image she eventually expanded into her first hypertext novel, ''Patchwork Girl''.〔("Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author As Cyborg-Femme Narrator" ), ''Mark Amerika''. March 15, 1998. Retrieved 2007-08-01.〕 Jackson later said that she never considered publishing ''Patchwork Girl'' as a print novel, explaining, A nonchronological reworking of Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'', ''Patchwork Girl'' was published by Eastgate Systems in 1995 to acclaim;〔D'Erasmo, Stacey. ("My Sister and Me" ), ''The New York Times'', August 13, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-01.〕 it became Eastgate's best-selling CD-ROM title and is now considered a groundbreaking work of hyperfiction.〔〔(Patchwork Girl ), Electronic Literature Organization, 2001. Retrieved 2007-08-01.〕 "Patchwork Girl" uses tissue and scars as well as the body and the skeleton as metaphors for the juxtaposition of lexia and link. While working in a San Francisco, California bookstore,〔 Jackson published two more hypertexts, the autobiographical ''(My Body )'' (1997), and ''(The Doll Games )'' (2001), which she wrote with her sister Pamela. In the late nineties, Jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories (in publications such as ''The Paris Review'' and ''Conjunctions'') and children's books. Jackson has explained that she "completely ignored" one college professor who told her the key to success was focus, and added that "()ometimes this means shuttling manically between art and writing and other, more unmentionable obsessions. More and more, though, and partly because of the ease of mixing media in electronic work, I've come to see all these projects as interrelated."〔 During this period, Jackson also did cover and interior illustrations for two short story collections by Kelly Link, ''Stranger Things Happen'' (2001) and ''Magic for Beginners'' (2005). She also illustrated her own children's books, ''The Old Woman and the Wave'' (1998) and ''Sophia, the Alchemist's Dog'' (2002). She published her first short story collection, ''The Melancholy of Anatomy'', in 2002. In 2003 she launched the (''Skin Project'' ), which she described as a In 1987, Jackson married the writer Jonathan Lethem; they divorced in 1998.〔Edemariam, Aida. ("The borrower" ), ''The Guardian'', June 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.〕 She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School in New York City and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.〔(Shelley Jackson ) Faculty page at European Graduate School〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shelley Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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