Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (1907-1989) was an English author and playwright.
Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca (the film adaptation of which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1941) 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.
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Series by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca (2 books)
Speculative Fiction Books
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
2011 | horror, short stories, mystery
Classics of the Macabre
1987 | horror, short stories, mystery
Echoes from the Macabre
1976 | horror, short stories, mystery
Rule Britannia
1972 | science fiction, dystopia
Not After Midnight
1971 | horror, short stories, mystery
The House on the Strand
1969 | fantasy
The Birds and Other Stories
1952 | horror, short stories, mystery
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories
1952 | horror, short stories, mystery