Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books ever, both in terms of copies sold and money made. Ten months before his death, the five top-selling children's books in Britain were ones he had written. In 1989 more than 2,300,000 c...

Roald Dahl began his career as a short-story writer after suffering through the horrors of severe canings and other punishments in oppressive British schools during the 1920s and 1930s and after enduring the horrors of military service as a Royal Air For...

Roald Dahl was flying over the African desert for the Royal Air Force during World War II when he was forced to make an emergency landing. He wrote in his first short story, "A Piece of Cake," "I remember the dipping of the nose of the aircraft and I rem...

AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE By Roald Dahl Knopf. 179 pp. $18.95 Roald Dahl probably is best known as an author of 18 books for children, a number of them hugely successful: "James and the Giant Peach," "Charlie and the Chocolate...

Roald Dahl The Collected Stories of Roald Dahl. Everyman's Library, 888 pages, $30 I was surprised to learn, from Jeremy Treglown's 1994 biography of Roald Dahl, that the British short-story writer and now-beloved children's author was in his younger days a fan...