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Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.
"No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of ""real literature"", something very few novelists ever do She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality - Guardian"
