The Boston Globe, April 20th, 1989
LONDON - Daphne du Maurier, author of "Rebecca," died yesterday at her home in Cornwall, the wildly beautiful English province in which she set many of her celebrated novels of romance and the supernatural. She was 81. Her novels like "Rebecca," "Frenchman's Creek," "My Cousin Rachel," and "Jamaica Inn" were household names in popular fiction and became hit movies. The du Maurier style, vivid and gothic, made for spine-chilling films like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," from her short story, and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now," from her novella. Dame Daphne, as she was known after being honore...
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