meetings and attempted to begin writing again. In the early 1960s, three of his short stories appeared in McCall's magazine but Jackson still struggled with periodic bouts of writer's block. He later worked as a story editor for the anthology television series Kraft Television Theatre and got a job teaching writing at Rutgers University. A long-time heavy smoker, Jackson suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Towards the end of his life, he was admitted to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York after a relapse of tuberculosis. After his release, Macmillan Publishers gave him an advance for a new book. Jackson moved to the Hotel Chelsea and resumed work on A Second-Hand Life, a novel that he began writing some 15 years earlier. Upon its release, the book received mediocre reviews but sold well. Death On September 21, 1968, Jackson died of barbiturate poisoning at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide. At the time of his death, Jackson was working on a sequel to The Lost Weekend entitled Farther and Wider. Jackson had relapsed into alcoholism during the months before his death, and had become estranged from his family. Jackson had been closeted for the greater part of his life and, in his later years, attempted to come to terms with his bisexuality. Jackson identified as bisexual late in life and began living with his male lover in 1965. Bibliography The Lost Weekend (1944) The Fall of Valor (1946) The Outer Edges (1948) The Sunnier Side: Twelve Arcadian Tales (1950) Earthly Creatures (1953) A Second-Hand Life (1967) References Bibliography External links The Papers of Charles R. Jackson in the Dartmouth College Library Charles Jackson's "The Fall of Valor" (Archived) Discussion on Charles Jackson by Blake Bailey, biographer and writer of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson on WNYC March 20, 2013 Leonard Lopate show. 1903 births 1968 suicides 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American screenwriters American male novelists American male screenwriters American male television writers American radio writers American television writers Barbiturates-related deaths Bisexual men Drug-related suicides in New York City American LGBT novelists LGBT people from New Jersey Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from New York (state) People from Newark, New York People from Sandy Hook, Connecticut Screenwriters from New York (state) Suicides in New York City Writers from New