French novelist Tatiana de Rosnay (Sarah's Key) can’t stop dreaming of Manderley. She’s a lifelong fan of Daphne du Maurier’s novels, especially 1938’s Rebecca, with its British manor stuffed with ...

JUSTINE PICARDIE’S “Daphne,” which focuses on Daphne du Maurier’s life in crisis as she turns 50 and prepares to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, is an engrossing and absorbing read. And as ...

Tatiana De Rosnay, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-2500-9913-6 Novelist De Rosnay’s (The Other Story) nonfiction debut is a fascinating, in-depth portrait ...

Daphne du Maurier is one of the most well-loved women writers of all time, a defining author who, in Rebecca, created one of the most beguiling characters in English literature. The BBC is celebrating ...

THIS FICTIONAL STORY, based on fact, opens in 1957 with Daphne du Maurier discovering that her husband of 25 years is having an affair and a nervous breakdown. To cope, she leaves his bedside in a ...

“In biography, families are the soil out of which character grows,” observes Dunn (Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) in this study of novelist Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca) and her much lesser-known ...

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as "moody ...

LONDON, February 12: The BBC has announced two commissions on the life and works of English author Daphne du Maurier to mark her centenary this year: the 90-minute drama Daphne and the factual special ...

Virago has acquired the rights to a history of the du Maurier family written by Daphne du Maurier’s grandson. Sarah Savitt, publisher of Virago, acquired world all-language rights to The Du Mauriers: ...