53The novel I read is REBECCA. It is written by an English female novelist, biographer, and playwright Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) whose married name is Lady Daphne Browning. Daphne du Maurier was born in London. She came from an artistic family. Her father was the actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier; her uncle, a magazine editor, published one of her stories when she was a teenager and got her a literary agent. In her childhood she was a voracious reader. She married to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Arthur Montague Browning II, who was knighted for his distinguished service during World War II. They were happily married for thirty-three years and had three children. ( )