DIPLOMATS OFTEN RECEIVE odd propositions, so on the face of things there was nothing unusually unusual about the contents of a letter sent to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1944, with the request that it should be passed on to the ambassador, then Lord Halifax.
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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful children's book writers of all time. The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, he was also a deeply troubled man about whom opinion is still divided. War hero, spy, connoisseur, philanthropist, family man who had to confront an appalling succession of tragedies, Dahl was also a fantasist, a bully, and a self-publicizing troublemaker who attracted accusations of rasicsm and misogyny. In this first full-length biography, Jeremy Treglown tells the story of Dahl's adventurous, myth-making life from childhood on, and traces the author's literary career from its beginnings in wartime propaganda in the early 1940s, his New Yorker stories and Hollywood screenplays, through his (at first reluctant) move into writing for children, to his unequaled commercial success. - Jacket flap.
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Roald Dahl: A Biography
June 1995, Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt, Brace
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Roald Dahl: a biography
1994, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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in English
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Almost anything you could say about him would be true
The apple
Flying
Disney
In the valley of the Dahls
Yakety parties
A very maternal daddy
Punishment and pain, unhappiness and despair
Center stage
Credits
Businessman of letters
Wham!
Pencils
Three cheers for Stephen Roxburgh
You're absolutely wrong and I am right
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-304) and index.
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