A new biography reminds us just how complicated. In the brisk and concise “Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected,” Matthew Dennison notes that the author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ...

ROALD DAHL, TELLER OF THE UNEXPECTED: A Biography, by Matthew Dennison Many young readers who love the prodigious oeuvre of Roald Dahl can nonetheless cite at least one thing within it that gives ...

You start out wanting to replace a word here and a word there, and end up inserting entirely new ideas (as has been done to Dahl's work)." Author Matthew Dennison, who wrote the biography "Roald ...

He was famously a war hero, a connoisseur, a philanthropist, a devoted family man who had to confront an appalling succession of tragedies,' Treglown wrote in Roald Dahl: A Biography. 'He was also ...

I’ve seen it twice myself. As Matthew Dennison’s sagacious biography demonstrates, however, never was a man more cursed than Roald Dahl. Things went wrong early. He was born in 1916 in ...

A new biography of Dahl, Storyteller by Donald ... to sainthood than the kind of raging egomania we associate with Roald Dahl and his literary ancestors. But it's interesting to be reminded ...

The edits were permitted by the Roald Dahl Story Company ... s English translation of Proust is (for some of us) an achievement arguably superior to the French original. In comparison with ...