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Roald Dahl

Male : Novelist and children's writer
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Llandaff, Glamorgan

Date of Birth : 1916 Date of Death : 1990 Age : 74

Education : Repton School
1943-1960
The Gremlins
(1943 Random House) (1944 Collins) - Walt Disney Studio
UK first offered for £250 in 1997
US first offered in 2000 £2950
Over to You : Stories of Fliers & Flying
(1946 Reynal & Hitchcock,NY) (1947 HH)
Sometime Never : A Fable for Supermen
(1948 Scribner) (1949 Collins)
Engelsk Skolegrammatik
(1953 Oslo) - with C Lund
Someone Like You
(1953 Knopf) (1954 Secker & Warburg) (1961 M Joseph) - ss
Kiss, Kiss
(1960 Knopf) (1960 Michael Joseph) - ss

1961-1970
James and the Giant Peach
(1961 Knopf) (1967 Allen & Unwin in laminated boards)
- Nancy Ekholm Burkert
[Filmed in 1996]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(1964 Knopf) (1967 Allen & Unwin UK) - Joseph Schindelman
[Filmed in 1971 as "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"]
The Magic Finger
(1966 Harper) (1968 A & U) - William Pene du Bois
Twenty Nine Kisses
(1969 MJ) - ss
Selected Stories
(1970 Random House)
Fantastic Mr Fox
(1970 Knopf) (1970 A & U) - Donald Chaffin

1971-1980
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
(1972 Knopf) (1973 A & U) - Joseph Schindelman
Switch Bitch
(1974 Knopf) (1974 MJ) - ss
Danny : The Champion of the World
(1975 Knopf) (1975 Cape) - Jill Bennett
[Filmed in 1989]
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Six More
(1977 Knopf) (1977 Cape)
The Enormous Crocodile
(1978 Knopf) (1978 Cape) - Quentin Blake
The Best of Roald Dahl
(1978 Vintage US)
My Uncle Oswald
(1979 MJ) (1980 Knopf)
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979 MJ) (1979 Vintage)
More Tales of the Unexpected
(1980 MJ)
The Twits
(1980 Cape Cape) (1981 Knopf) - Quentin Blake

1981-1990
George's Marvellous Medicine
(1981 Cape) (1982 Knopf) - Quentin Blake
The BFG
(1982 Cape) (1982 Farrar, Straus & G) - Quentin Blake
Revolting Rhymes
(1983 Cape) (1983 Knopf) - Quentin Blake
(Ed) Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983 Cape)
The Best of Roald Dahl
(1983 MJ) - ss
Dirty Beasts
(1983 Cape £4.95) (1983 Farrar Straus) - Rosemary Fawcett
The Witches
(1983 Cape) (1983 FS) - Quentin Blake
[Filmed in 1990]
Boy : Tales of Childhood
(1984 Cape) (1984 FS)
Boy : Tales of Childhood
(1984 FS) - Signed Ltd Ed
The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me
(1985 Cape £5.95) (1985 FS) - Quentin Blake
Two Fables
(1986 Viking, London)
Matilda
(1988 Cape) (1988 Viking Kestrel) - Quentin Blake
[Filmed in 1996]
Going Solo
(1988 Cape) - memoir
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
(1989 MJ) (1990 Knopf) - ss
Rhyme Stew
(1989 Cape) (1990 Viking Penguin)
Esio Trot
(1990 Cape) (1990 Viking Penguin) - Quentin Blake

After 1991
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
(1991 Century £6.99) - Quentin Blake
The Minpins
(1991 Cape) (1991 VP)
The Collected Short Stories
(1991 MJ) (1991 Viking)
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
(1991 British Railways Board) - Quentin Blake
Roald Dahl : My Year
(1993 Cape £8.99) - Quentin Blake
The Great Automatic Grammatizator
(1996 Viking) (1996 as "The Umbrella Man" Viking US)
The Roald Dahl Treasury
(1997 Cape) (1997 Viking)
The Mildenhall Treasure
(1999 Cape) (2000 Knopf) - Ralph Steadman
Skin
(2000 Viking) - ss
Complete Tales of the Unexpected and Other Stories
(2001 Folio Society) - Helen Smithson

[By 2003 total UK sales of his books had reached some 40 million copies]

READING
Barry Farrell : Pat and Roald
(1969 Random House)
Chris Powling : Roald Dahl
(1983 Hamish Hamilton)
Patricia Neal : As I Am
(1988 Simon & Schuster)
Jeremy Treglown : Roald Dahl - A Biography
(1994 Faber £17.50) (1995 Faber pb £6.99)

Related Writers

Folio Society


See also

Quentin Saxby Blake
Ralph Idris Steadman