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Roald Dahl bibliography

List of works written by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was a British author and scriptwriter,[1] and "the most popular writer of children's books since Enid Blyton", according to Philip Howard, the literary editor of The Times.[2]

Dahl wrote his first story for children, The Gremlins, in 1943; the story was also written for Walt Disney, who was interested in turning it into a film that was ultimately never made.[3] This was Roald Dahl's first children's book published, though it was originally not written as such.[4] Dahl continued to write short stories, although these were all aimed at the adult market. Dahl worked for periodicals as a short story contributor. Other stories were sold to magazines and newspapers, and were later compiled into collections, the first of which was published in 1946. Dahl began to make up bedtime stories for the children, and these formed the basis of several of his stories.[7] His first novel intentionally written for children, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961, which was followed, along with others, by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Fantastic Mr Fox (1970), Danny, the Champion of the World (1975), The BFG (1982) and Matilda in 1988.[9]

Dahl's first script was for a stage work, The Honeys, which appeared on Broadway in 1955. He followed this with a television script, "Lamb to the Slaughter", for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series. He co-wrote screenplays for film, including for You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).[11] In 1982 Dahl published the first of three editions of poems aimed at children. The following year he edited a book of ghost stories.[12] He wrote several works of non-fiction, including three autobiographies, a cookery book, a safety leaflet for the British railways and a book on measles, which was about the death of his daughter Olivia from measles encephalitis.[12]

As at 2019, Dahl's works have been translated into 63 languages and have sold more than 200 million books worldwide.[14][15] Dahl was known as “The World’s No. 1 Story-teller” due to how his books celebrate nonsense, imagination, and creativity. It is because of this that his books are still popular with children.[16] His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[17] He has been referred to by The Independent as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".[18] On his death in 1990, Howard considered him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation".[2]

Novels

Short story collections

See also: Roald Dahl short stories bibliography

Scripts

Many of Dahl's works were used as the basis for films or television programmes. The following are where he is credited as the writer of the performed script.[7][25]

Poems

Books edited

Non-fiction

Notes and references

Explanatory notes

Citations

  1. ^"Obituary: Roald Dahl". The Times. 24 November 1990. p. 14.
  2. ^ abHoward, Philip (24 November 1990). "Death silences Pied Piper of the macabre". The Times. p. 1.
  3. ^Royer, Sharon E. (1 September 1998). "Roald Dahl and Sociology 101". The ALAN Review. 26 (1). doi:10.21061/alan.v26i1.a.6.
  4. ^"The Gremlins: Background". Roald Dahl.
  5. ^ abcd"Roald Dahl". Contemporary Authors. Gale. Retrieved 5 February 2016.(subscription required)
  6. ^Book and Magazine Collector 2005, pp. 20–27.
  7. ^ ab"Roald Dahl". American Film Institute. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  8. ^ abcdef"Roald Dahl, Published works"(PDF). Roald Dahl Museum. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  9. ^"Roald Dahl centenary: 'Tremendous things' promised for 2016". BBC. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  10. ^"Oxford University Press to capture Roald Dahl's naughtiest language for the first time: World Book Day!". Cardiff Times. 7 March 2019.
  11. ^Spivey, Madeline (2020). "Roald Dahl and the Construction of Childhood: Writing the Child as Other". The Oswald Review.
  12. ^"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. 5 January 2008. p. 11 (Section 3).
  13. ^"Once upon a time, there was a man who liked to make up stories ..."The Independent. 12 December 2010.
  14. ^Book and Magazine Collector 2005, pp. 17–30.
  15. ^Book and Magazine Collector 2005, p. 18.
  16. ^Book and Magazine Collector 2005, p. 22.
  17. ^ ab"Roald Dahl". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  18. ^Walker, Richard (2020). "Roald Dahl – A Guide To Collecting his First Editions". Richard's Left Bank. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

General and cited sources

  • "Collecting Roald Dahl". The Book and Magazine Collector. No. 259. September 2005.
  • Carrick, Robert (2002). "Roald Dahl". In Harris-Fain, Darren (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Fantast and Science-Fiction Writers, 1918–1960. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN .
  • Conant, Jennet (2008). The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. London: Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
  • Dalby, Richard (April 1994). "The Adult Fiction of Roald Dahl". The Book and Magazine Collector. No. 121.
  • Grigsby, John L (1994). "Roald Dahl". In Baldwin, Dean (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1945–1980. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN .
  • Howard, Philip (2011). "Dahl, Roald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39827.
  • Sturrock, Donald (2010). Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl. London: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN .
  • Walker, Richard (April 2002). "Roald Dahl: A Collector's Guide to his First Editions". The Book and Magazine Collector. No. 217.
  • Walker, Richard (March 2004). "The Magazine Stories of Roald Dahl". The Book and Magazine Collector. No. 240.

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