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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 read
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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 t