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Dame Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English short story, novel and playwright.
Many of his works have been adapted into films, including his novels Rebecca (the film adaptation won the Best Picture Oscar in 1941) and Jamaica Inn, and his short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now.
His grandfather is actor and writer George du Maurie, and his father is actor Gerald du Maurier. Her older sister Angela was also a writer and her sister Jeanne was a painter.
his youth
Daphne du Maurier was born in London, the second of three daughters of Sir Gerald du Maurier, a well-known actor, and actress Muriel Beaumont. His grandfather is the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character Svengali in the novel Trilby.
These connections helped him establish a literary career, and du Maurier had some of his early work published in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. His first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931. Du Maurier is also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies children, who inspired James Matthew Barrie in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, thanks to his father's fame, he met many bright stars of the theater. After meeting Tallulah Bankhead he was recorded as saying that she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.