Daphne du Maurier Biography

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NAME: Daphne du Maurier
OCCUPATION: Author, Playwright
BIRTH DATE: May 13, 1907
DEATH DATE: April 19, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: Par, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

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Dame Daphne du Maurier was a novelist and playwright whose famous works Rebecca and The Birds were made into films by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Daphne du Maurier was born on May 13, 1907, in London, England, the daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier. She was a poular novelist known for her suspenseful, romantic and sometimes supernatural plots. Her best known works are Rebecca and The Birds, both adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She died in 1981 in Par, Cornwall, England.

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