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 ...

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 ...

To be famous for just one novel—even a novel as good as Rebecca—is a mixed blessing for any author. Daphne du Maurier wrote 17 novels, a few plays, and numerous short stories, but she’s known chiefly ...

Tatiana de Rosnay tells us that, at the age of 11, when she first opened a copy of “Rebecca,” she “had no idea how important that novel would become in my life.” We may believe her, but its author, ...

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 ...

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece. How often have I been lured in to both the novel and the 1940 ...

For over eighty years, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca has been delighting and terrifying readers in equal measure with its haunting story of a young woman's fairy tale romance thrown wildly off course by ...

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Rebecca, the Ben Wheatley-directed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic novel that was previously turned into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.