his father, john winthrop, only came over four years later. wendy warren has written a major work. >> host: shirley jackson, who was shirley jackson? >> guest: shirley jackson is, there's a huge renaissance. she's one of the ark the texts in fiction -- architects in fiction of horror, quality fiction in this country. she's -- ruth franklin who is the author of this biography, says she's the heir apparent to poe and to hawthorne. and she's traced in this woman's life through her novels in the '50s, and it predates feminine mystique, and it's this stunning biography. >> host: how -- why have a lot of us not heard of her? >> guest: most people have heard of her through the lottery. the lottery's one of the most famous short stories written in the new yorker in 1948. she was forgotten. suddenly, you know, america's filled with fiction revival, and she is suddenly all over the place. >> host: there's a novel that's coming out by alan moore. what is this book, bob? >> guest: it's one of the hottest novels in the world including in america. it's comi

. >> well, back in 2013, june june 26th of this year when the winthrop decision was announced, john, my partner of over 20 years at that point died of als and he was bedridden. when the decision was announced, simply landover, 10 and kissed him and said let's get married. luckily he said yes. we then had to go through the painful process of how to do that, but we made it happen. they came home from maryland where they got rid on a tarmac and we got back to cincinnati and that's all we wanted to do about john's remaining days as husband and husband. we had no other plan. by virtue of friend, telling our story, the civil rights attorney pledged. and our first conversation, he did something that changed the course of our life, which has turned into the change in our country. what plan had happened and they filed suit in the state of ohio in federal court and we want. later we were combined with five other cases from three other states than we lost in the appeals court and we filed with the supreme court and the question was how did it become known? it isn't anything complicated or mythi