Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were the actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and the actress Muriel Beaumont, and her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. She spent much of her life in Cornwall, and she lived from 1907 to 1989. Her novel Rebecca is her best-known work. Her notable works include the novels Jamaica Inn of 1936, Rebecca of 1938 and My Cousin Rachel of 1951, and the short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now, several of which were filmed, including three adaptations by Alfred Hitchcock.