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Daphne du Maurier

(1907 - 1989)
Granddaughter of George Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was born on May 13, 1907, in London, England, the daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier. She was a popular 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.

Genres: Horror

Novels

   The Loving Spirit (1931)
   I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)
   Julius (1933)
     aka The Progress of Julius
   Jamaica Inn (1936)
   Rebecca (1938)
   Castle Dor (1940) (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch)
   Come Wind, Come Weather (1940)
   Frenchman's Creek (1941)
   Hungry Hill (1943)
   Spring Picture (1944)
   The King's General (1946)
   The Parasites (1949)
   My Cousin Rachel (1951)
   Mary Anne (1954)
   The Scapegoat (1957)
   The Glass Blowers (1962)
   The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
   The House on the Strand (1968)
   Don't Look Now (1971)
   Rule Britannia (1972)

Collections

   The Apple Tree (1952) (with Frank Cowper)
   The Birds (1952)
   Happy Christmas (1953)
   Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953)
   Early Stories (1954)
   The Breaking Point (1959)
     aka The Blue Lenses
   The Treasury of du Maurier Short Stories (1960)
   Echoes from the Macabre (1971)
   Don't Look Now and Other Stories (1971)
     aka Not After Midnight
   The Rendezvous (1980)
   Split Second (1981)
   Don't Look Now and Other Echoes from the Macabre (1985)
   Daphne Du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (1987)
   Birds of Prey (2010) (with others)
   The Doll (2011)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Breakthrough (1966)

Non fiction

   Gerald (1935)
   The Du Mauriers (1937)
   The Young George du Maurier (1952)
   The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (1960)
   Vanishing Cornwall (1967)
   Golden Lads (1975)
   The Winding Stair (1976)
   Myself When Young (1977)
     aka Growing Pains
   Rebecca Notebook (1981)
   Enchanted Cornwall (1989)
   Letters from Menabilly (1993)

Omnibus editions

   Duet (1968)
   Four Great Cornish Novels (1978)
   The Birds / Don't Look Now (1997)
   Three Great Novels (2010)

Anthologies containing stories by Daphne du Maurier

Tales of the Supernatural (1962)
Stories of Suspense (1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Others (1969)
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1970)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
A Little Night Reading (1974)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
The 12th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Black Water (1983)
Witches' Brew (1984)
Shadows of Fear (1992)
Ghost Movies (1995)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)

Short stories

	The Little Photographer
	The Escort (1940)
	The Apple Tree [short story] (1952)
	The Birds [short story] (1952)
	Kiss Me Again, Stranger [short story] (1952)
	Monte Verita (1952)
	The Old Man (1952)
	Split Second [short story] (1952)
	The Blue Lenses (1959)
	The Chamois (1959)
	The Pool (1959)
	Don't Look Now [short story] (1966)
	A Border-Line Case (1971)
	Not After Midnight (1971)
	The Way of the Cross (1971)