达夫妮·杜穆里埃的英文简介
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达夫妮·杜穆里埃的英文简介
达夫妮·杜穆里埃的英文简介
达夫妮·杜穆里埃的英文简介
Dame Daphne du Maurier
married name Lady Daphne Browning
born May 13, 1907, London, Eng.
died April 19, 1989, Par, Cornwall
English novelist and playwright, daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, best known for her novel Rebecca (1938).
Du Maurier's first novel, The Loving Spirit (1931), was followed by many successful, usually romantic tales set on the wild coast of Cornwall, where she came to live. She also wrote historical fiction, several plays, and Vanishing Cornwall (1967), a travel guide. Her popular Rebecca was made into a motion picture in 1940. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She published an autobiography, Growing Pains, in 1977; the collection The Rendezvous and Other Stories in 1980; and a literary reminiscence, The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, in 1981.