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Du Maurier, Daphne
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her grandfather was an author and caricaturist for Punch. Daphne du Maurier attended public schools in London and Paris and began to write at an early age, her first novel The Loving Spirit came in 1931. The following year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, later promoted to...
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McClure, James
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently born in Johannesburg. The family soon moved to Pretoria and then to Pietermaritzburg in Natal. McClure was educated at Scottsville School in 1947–51, Cowan House in 1952–54 and Maritzburg College in 1955–58, all in Pietermaritzburg. He worked as a photographer between 1958 and 19...