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The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
Simon and Schuster
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
672 pages
ISBN: 1416550828
EAN: 9781416550822
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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Sturrock draws on a wealth of previously unpublished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 timely reexamination of
Dahl’s long and complex literary career.
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