1952 as/span> Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short, 1953 as The Birds and Other Stories, 1968. The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories. (Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire), 1969.
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1952.
Awards: Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award, 1977. Family: Married lieutenant-general Sir Frederick Browning in 1932 (died 1965) two daughters and one son.
Education: Educated privately and in Paris. Born: London, daughter of the actor manager Sir Gerald du Maurier granddaughter of George du Maurier. If you enjoyed Don't Look Now and Other Stories, you might like Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.Nationality: English. Du Maurier is best known for and Jamaica Inn (1936), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939, Rebecca (1938), filmed by Hitchcock in 1940, and The Birds (1952), filmed by Hitchcock in 1963. ĭaphne du Maurier (1907-89) - English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of Cornwall. Adapted into a terrifying film starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, 'Don't Look Now' is The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires: 'Not After Midnight', in which a lonely teacher investigates a mysterious American couple 'A Border Line Case', in which a young woman confronts her father's past and his associations with the IRA 'The Way of the Cross', in which a party of pilgrims to Jerusalem encounter strange phenomena in the Garden of Gethsemane and 'The Breakthrough', in which a scientist claims to be able to trap the soul at the point of death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death.
Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.
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