From the age of 13, Dahl was sent to Repton School in Derbyshire, where there was an unusual arrangement with Cadbury's, the Birmingham-based confectionery manufacturer. "Once a term each boy was ...

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 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 (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Born ...

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 year 1960 began calmly enough for Roald Dahl, but it would prove to be tumultuous in many ways. Kiss Kiss, his fourth collection of short stories, was published in the United States in March and ...