Dahl’s family said in 2020: “Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl’s stories, which ...

The official Roald Dahl museum has publicly acknowledged that the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other classics of children’s literature had in his life engaged ...

Until 1953, Dahl lived at home in England with his mother, to whom, as Dennison repeatedly emphasizes, he was close all his life. That year, though, he met and successfully wooed the American ...

But Dahl’s life was marked by personal tragedy. In 1962, Dahl’s daughter Olivia came sick with measles. As the author recalls ...

The family are no doubt alive to suggestions that selling a company for a fortune then whingeing about the moral consequences might smack of self-righteous hypocrisy On November 23, 1990, his body ...

The Roald Dahl Story Company, ... But Dahl, who died in 1990, is also a controversial figure because of antisemitic comments made throughout his life. His family apologized in 2020.

The Roald Dahl Museum in England, founded by the widow of the children’s author, has acknowledged his racism was “undeniable and indelible.” Dahl, who died in 1990, was the creator of ...

Wes Anderson Finally Found a Way Into His New Roald Dahl Film For years, the director puzzled over an adaptation of “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Then he let the characters say things ...

When I was growing up, I worked my way eagerly through the works of Maurice Sendak, and then E.B. White, and then Beverly Cleary. By the time I finally reached the novels of Roald Dahl, however, I ...

The ickiest thing about the life of Dahl, who died in 1990, was his well-documented antisemitism, capped by a 1983 comment about Jews to The New Statesman, in which he declared that “even a ...

The Roald Dahl Museum in England, founded by the widow of the children’s author, has acknowledged his racism was “undeniable and indelible.” Dahl, who died in 1990, was the creator of ...