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1944 | The Lost Weekend. A groundbreaking, realistic treatment of alcoholism, Jackson's novel documents a harrowing five-day binge by a writer whose desperate pursuit of the next drink alternates with explorations of the psychological causes of his addiction. It would be made into a memorable film in 1945, starring Ray Milland. Jackson was a newspaperman and radio writer. |
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1946 | The Fall of Valor. The author of The Lost Weekend (1944) follows that success with a treatment of a married man's discovery of his homosexuality. Edmund Wilson writes that Jackson "made homosexuality middle-class and thereby removed it from the privileged level at which Gide and Proust had set it." |
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1948 | The Outer Edge. Jackson continues his studies of human pathology in the story of a brutal murder of two young girls by a teenager and its consequences for various members of a suburban community. |
