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Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
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By Donald Sturrock
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THE FIRST AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF ROALD DAHL, STORYTELLER IS A MASTERFUL, WITTY AND INCISIVE LOOK AT ONE OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS OF THE MODERN AGE.
In his lifetime Roald Dahl pushed children’s literature into uncharted territory, and today his popularity around the globe continues to grow, with millions of his books sold every year. But the man behind the mesmerizing stories has remained largely an enigma. A single-minded adventurer and an eternal child who gave us the iconic Willy Wonka and Matilda Wormwood, Dahl was better known during his lifetime for his blunt opinions on taboo subjects—he was called an anti-Semite, a racist and a misogynist—than for his creative genius. His wild imagination, dark humor and linguistic elegance were less than fully appreciated by critics and readers alike until after his death.
Granted unprecedented access to the Dahl estate’s extraordinary archives—personal correspondence, journals and interviews with family members and famous friends—Donald Sturrock draws on a wealth of previously unpublished materials that informed Dahl’s writing and his life. It was a life filled with incident, drama and adventure: from his harrowing experiences as an RAF fighter pilot and his work in wartime intelligence, to his many romances and turbulent marriage to the actress Patricia Neal, to the mental anguish caused by the death of his young daughter Olivia. Tracing a brilliant yet tempestuous ascent toward notoriety, Sturrock sheds new light on Dahl’s need for controversy, his abrasive manner and his fascination for the gruesome and the macabre.
A remarkable biography of one of the world’s most exceptional writers, Storyteller is an intimate portrait of an intensely private man hindered by physical pain and haunted by family tragedy, and a t
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'Daddy gave joy to millions of children. But I was dying inside': Tessa Dahl on life with her best-selling author father Roald
By TESSA DAHL
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We should have stuck to Anna Freud’s advice in 1961. My father Roald Dahl took me to see her after I had witnessed my baby brother Theo being squashed in his pram by a taxi in New York City. The nanny had crossed the road without looking.
I was deeply traumatised. Wetting my bed. I asked when my brother would be coming home. Anna Freud, an eminent daughter of Sigmund and the founder of child psychoanalysis, told Daddy that the whole family needed therapy, not just me. Not just me.
He hated the idea of therapy, analysis or psychiatry, as he said all his friends – Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett and the rest – ‘could never write after they had had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes’. He was convinced that drugs were the answer (they didn’t flatten you like a pancake?). I believe he did not want to face his inner demons. So he told Anna to medicate me instead.
Troubled relationship: Roald Dahl offers Tessa, then aged eight, a sip of his champagne in 1965
She refused – as I later discovered – telling my father that if I were medicated, ‘she will never know how to feel. Not any feelings. If every time she has an emotion you give her a pill to stop the emotion, you will be left with a very dangerous potential situation. A melting pot of confusion, of narcissism, of other personality and character disorders because she will have no sense of how to process her own world.’
Well, my father was too overwhelmed trying to deal with my baby brother’s massive brain injuries. Instead of heeding Anna Freud, who adamantly refused to give me prescription drugs, he found a man who could and would.
So, at the age of four, I started on the road to swallowing my sorrows with a pill.
Today, my father is known around the world for his books Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and James And The .