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Daphne du Maurier Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: May 13, 1907
  • Died: Apr 19, 1989

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was an English author and playwright.

Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now. The first three film adaptations were directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the last by Nicolas Roeg.

Her grandfather was the artist and writer George du Maurier and her father the actor Gerald du Maurier. Her elder sister Angela also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. happiness

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. women

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