I have a book by Shirley Jackson inscribed "For Ann and Bern with warmest affection. Shirley, September 1962." Please help me identify the recipients.

WOW! I do believe that the book you possess may be a piece of
true literary history. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) lived most of her life in New England with her
husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman (1919-1970). They had many friends in the literary
field and knew many other contemporary writers of the time. It is known that she often
corresponded with Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the Brooklyn-born
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1967 (for The
Fixer). Malamud's nickname was "Bern" and his wife was Ann De Chiara Malamud
(1917-2007). Almost certainly your book was presented by Jackson to either Malamud himself and/or
his wife, Ann, making it a wonderful piece of literary nostalgia that was once owned and handled
by not one but two great American writers.