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 ...

Only a special author can enter the imaginative realm of a child to write a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yet this authorized biography, written by someone who knew Dahl and worked with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British children's author Roald Dahl on Dec. 11, 1971. Despite Dahl publicly admitting he was anti-Semitic in an interview shortly ...

Dahl started writing after his near-death plane crash. Should we all just bash our heads in? It seems like his plane crash propelled his extraordinary imagination. It did in many ways. … But most ...

The iconic children’s book writer Roald Dahl (1916–1990) concluded his last book, The Minpins (1991) with these poignant words: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you ...

In ‘In Search of Lost time,’Marcel Proust warns of the futility of regretting one’s past. “We are not provided with wisdom,” he writes, “we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the ...

When I was growing up, I worked my way eagerly through the works of Maurice Sendak, and then E.B. White, and then Beverly Cleary. By the time I finally reached the novels of Roald Dahl, however, I ...