Daphne du Maurier
/ˌdæfni du ˈmɒrieɪ/
/ˌdæfni du ˈmɔːrieɪ/
- (1907-89) a popular English writer of exciting and romantic novels set in the south-west of England. Films of her most famous novel, Rebecca (1938), and one of her short stories, The Birds (1952), were made by Alfred Hitchcock.
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