Author: Daphne du Maurier
Alternate names: Dame Daphne du Maurier Browning; Daphne DuMaurier; Daphne Maurier du; Daphne Du Maurier; Daphné du Maurier; Daphne DU MAURIER; Дафна де Морье; Maurier Du Daphne; Daphné du MAURIER; Dame Daphne Du Maurier; DAPHNE DU MAURIER; daphne du maurier; Du Maurier Daphné; Du Maurier. Daphne; DU MAURIER DAPHNE; MAURIER Daphné DU; Daphné Du Maurier; Dame Du Maurier Daphne; Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; DU MAURIER Daphne -; Daphne Dame Du Maurier; Д. Дюморье; Дафна Дюморье; D. Du Maurier; Dphne Du Maurier; du maurier; Daphne Dumaurier; Du Maurier D; daphne de Maurier; D Maurier; D Du Maurier; Maurier Du; Du Maurier; Daphne Maurier; D du Maurier; Daphn Du Maurier; Daphne duMaurier; D. DU MAURIER; Maurier Daphné Du; Du Maurier Daphne; Daphne du maurier; daphne du Maurier
Title: Dame
Born: 13 May 1907
Died: 19 April 1989
Bio: Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire.

In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.