Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was a British novelist, short-story writer and playwright, born in London into an artistic family and long settled in Cornwall, the setting of much of her work. Her novel “Rebecca” (1938), with its unnamed narrator haunted by her husband's first wife at Manderley, became one of the best-loved books of the century and was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. She also wrote “Jamaica Inn” (1936), “Frenchman's Creek” (1941), “My Cousin Rachel” (1951) and “The House on the Strand” (1969), and the stories “The Birds” and “Don't Look Now”, both adapted for the screen. She died at Par, Cornwall, in 1989.
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Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was a British novelist, short-story writer and playwright, born in London into an artistic family and long settled in Cornwall, the setting of much of her work. Her novel “Rebecca” (1938), with its unnamed narrator haunted by her husband's first wife at Manderley, became one of the best-loved books of the century and was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. She also wrote “Jamaica Inn” (1936), “Frenchman's Creek” (1941), “My Cousin Rachel” (1951) and “The House on the Strand” (1969), and the stories “The Birds” and “Don't Look Now”, both adapted for the screen. She died at Par, Cornwall, in 1989.
