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 ...

The author of children’s favorites like ‘Matilda’ was a complicated man. A new biography reminds us just how complicated. In the brisk and concise “Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected,” Matthew ...

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 ...

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 ...

The garden shed. Different people know different things about Roald Dahl. You may recall his short story about a woman who clubs her husband to death with a leg of lamb and disguises the murder weapon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...