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Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du MaurierBorn: 13-May-1907
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 19-May-1989
Location of death: Par, Cornwall, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Rebecca

Father: Gerald Du Maurier (actor)
Mother: Muriel Beaumont
Husband: Frederick Arthur Montague Browning (m. 19-Jul-1932, d. 14-Mar-1956)
Daughter: (two daughters)
Son: Kitts Browning
Boyfriend: Carol Reed (film director, ex-)
Girlfriend: Gertrude Lawrence (theater actress)

    Dame of the British Empire

Author of books:
The Loving Spirit (1931)
I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)
The Progress of Julius (1933)
Gerald, A Portrait (1934, nonfiction, study of her father)
Jamaica Inn (1934, novel)
The Du Mauriers (1937, nonfiction)
Rebecca (1938, novel)
Frenchman's Creek (1942, novel)
My Cousin Rachel (1951, novel)
Vanishing Cornwall (1967)
The House on the Strand (1969, novel)
The Winding Stair (1976)
Myself When Young (1977, memoir)
The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980, short stories)



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