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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Born on September 13, 1916, Roald Dahl, the beloved author of “Matilda” and “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” would have turned 100 today. It’s an anniversary we mark with admiration and a bit ...

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 ...