Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
"Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning" Order of the British Empire/DBE was an England/English author and playwright.
Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca (novel)/Rebecca (the film adaptation of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture Academy Award/Oscar in 1941) and Jamaica Inn (novel)/Jamaica Inn and the short stories The Birds (story)/The Birds and Don't Look Now. The first three film adaptations were directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the last by Nicolas Roeg.
Her grandfather was the artist and writer George du Maurier and her father the actor Gerald du Maurier. Her elder sister Angela du Maurier/Angela also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter.
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
A quality of thought, a state of mind.
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