Du Maurier, << doo MAWR ee `ay,` >> George (1834-1896), was an English artist and novelist. He drew numerous black-and-white cartoons that satirized English society during his time. Most of these appeared in Punch, a weekly comic magazine. Du Maurier also illustrated the works of such important authors as Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Du Maurier wrote three highly dramatic novels that contain an unusual blend of fantasy and autobiography. Trilby (1894), the most popular, is about an artist’s model under the power of an evil hypnotist named Svengali. Du Maurier’s other novels are Peter Ibbetson (1891) and The Martian (1896). George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier was born in Paris.
