About the AuthorDaphne du Maurier was born May 13th, 1907, in London. Her father, a very well-known actor manager, introduced her to the art of writing. She was educated in Paris and finished her first novel, The Loving Spirit in 1931. Shortly after wrote another novel, Rebecca in 1938. Her novel Rebecca was adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock that won an Oscar in 1940 ("Daphne du Maurier"). A few of her other novels, The Birds, Jamaica Inn, and Frenchman’s Creek became large successes and were all adapted into movies. Going along with her multiple novels, she also wrote three separate plays. During her lifetime she married and raised two daughter and a son. She also was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969, which is the female equivalent of being knighted. She died April 19th, 1989 at 81 years of age.
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