These three volumes represent her best work. Her tales were later collected in The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories ( Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short in the United States), The Breaking Point: Eight Stories, and Not after Midnight and Other Stories ( Don't Look Now in the United States). Critical Studies:ĭu Maurier by Richard Kelly, 1987 The Private World of du Maurier by Martyn Shallcross, 1991 The Private World of Daphne du Maurier by Martyn Shallcross, 1993 Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller by Margaret Forster, 1993 A Synopsis of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: For Examination Purposes by Mary Todd, 1995 Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity, and the Gothic Imagination by Avril Horner, 1998.* * *ĭaphne du Maurier wrote most of her short fiction between 19, originally publishing stories in women's magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. The du Maurier Companion by Stanley Vickers, 1997. 1951.Įditor, Best Stories, by Phyllis Bottome. 1993.Įditor, The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters 1860-1867. Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship.

1980.Įnchanted Cornwall: Her Pictorial Memoir, edited by Piers Dudgeon. The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (includes stories). Growing Pains: The Shaping of a Writer (autobiography). The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall. Golden Lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon and Their Friends. Vanishing Cornwall, photographs of Christian Browning. Gerald: A Portrait (on Gerald du Maurier). Hungry Hill, with Terence Young and Francis Crowdry, 1947. Rebecca, from her own novel (produced 1940).

1976.Ĭastle Dor (completion of novel by Arthur Quiller-Couch). 1971 as Don't Look Now, 1971.Įchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories. 1959 as The Blue Lenses and Other Stories, 1970. 1952 as/span> Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short, 1953 as The Birds and Other Stories, 1968. The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories. (Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire), 1969. Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1952. Awards: Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award, 1977. Family: Married lieutenant-general Sir Frederick Browning in 1932 (died 1965) two daughters and one son.

Education: Educated privately and in Paris. Born: London, daughter of the actor manager Sir Gerald du Maurier granddaughter of George du Maurier.

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