The Life Of Roald Dahl - Storyteller

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The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre. Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. He pushed children's literature into uncharted territory & almost twenty years after his death his popularity continues to grow ? worldwide sales of his books have now topped 100 million. The man behind the stories, however, remains an enigma. Dahl was a single-minded adventurer, an eternal child, & his public persona was often controversial. To his readers, though, Dahl was always a hero & his stories have had an impact on the lives & imaginations of generations of children. Since his death his reputation has been transformed. Critics too now celebrate his wild imagination, quirky humour & linguistic elegance; figures like Willy Wonka, the BFG & the Grand High Witch are immortal literary creations. In this masterly biography, Donald Sturrock reveals many hitherto hidden aspects of Roald Dahl's life: his terrifying experiences as a fighter pilot; the mental anguish caused by the death of his seven-year-old daughter; his work for military intelligence at the end of the war & more. Written with exclusive access to his private papers & manuscripts as well as with reference to hundreds of newly-discovered letters, Dahl lives on every page of this utterly compelling book, which reveals the man as we've never seen him before.