Roald Dahl had been a rebellious teenager, but his defiance was generally a private affair. As a schoolboy at Repton, disguised in waders, helmet, wind-jacket and goggles, he had roared noisily ...

Roald Dahl, the beloved laureate of modern children’s fiction, who often boasted of his uncanny access to the seven-year-old mind, who preeningly referred to himself in old age as a “geriatric child,” ...

Roald Dahl was an almost impossible man to love, said Kathryn Hughes in the London Guardian. “Crashing through life like a big, bad child,” the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author “managed to ...

Roald Dahl is best known for his children's stories. His first -- and arguably his most famous -- was James and the Giant Peach, published in 1961, when Dahl was already in his mid-40s. But prior to ...

At 6 feet 5 inches tall, Roald Dahl was larger than life. His imposing and complicated personality makes all the more sense when you picture him as a near giant: Donald Sturrock notes that at their ...

I was sitting on an airplane with a copy of “Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl” when an elegant woman in the seat next to me murmured, almost to herself, “I live just down the lane ...

Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter Even Roald Dahl could not have dreamt up the horrifying series of events that rocked his family in the Sixties, just as his career was taking off. In an extract ...

The Cardiff-born best-selling author of children's books including The BFG, The Witches and Matilda. Biography of the best selling Cardiff-born author. Roald Dahl's daughter Ophelia talks of how some ...

Readers know Roald Dahl through his books, specifically his children's stories. But Donald Sturrock's 'Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl' delves much deeper into the life of the ...