In one work by this author, Mildred Kent runs into Mr. Johnson, after which he gives her and Arthur Adams money to go to Coney Island; his wife spent her day accusing a woman of shoplifting and trying to get a bus driver fired. In another work by this author, chips of wood are abandoned in favor of pieces of paper and members of a town mispronounce the name "Delacroix." This author wrote a novel whose protagonist feeds Richard Plantagenet (plan-TAH-jun-ette) and uses long things to remind herself to be kind to Uncle Julian, and in which it is revealed that (*) Merricat, not Constance, killed the Blackwoods. This author of "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" and We Have 
In one work by this author, Mildred Kent runs into Mr. Johnson, after which he gives her and Arthur Adams money to go to Coney Island; his wife spent her day accusing a woman of shoplifting and trying to get a bus driver fired. In another work by this author, chips of wood are abandoned in favor of pieces of paper and members of a town mispronounce the name "Delacroix." This author wrote a novel whose protagonist feeds Richard Plantagenet (plan-TAH-jun-ette) and uses long things to remind herself to be kind to Uncle Julian, and in which it is revealed that (*) Merricat, not Constance, killed the Blackwoods. This author of "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" and We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps best known for a work which describes the events of June 27, when Davy Hutchinson helps stone his mother Tessie to death. For 10 points, name this author of "The Lottery."
In one work by this author, Mildred Kent runs into Mr. Johnson, after which he gives her and Arthur Adams money to go to Coney Island; his wife spent her day accusing a woman of shoplifting and trying to get a bus driver fired.
Shirley Jackson [or Shirley Hardie Jackson]