Author (13-Sep-1916 — 23-Nov-1990)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Roald Dahl. Boy: Tales of Childhood. London: Jonathan Cape. 1984. 160pp.

Barry Farrell. Pat and Roald. New York: Random House. 1969. 242pp. From the cover: "At the height of her acting career, Patricia Neal suffered a near fatal stroke. This is the story of her remarkable recovery."

Donald Sturrock. Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl. McClelland & Stewart. 2010. 672pp. Authorized biography.

Jeremy Treglown. Roald Dahl: A Biography. New York: Farrar Starus & Giroux. 1994.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.roalddahl.com/

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.378)

8. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.61)

9. Contemporary Novelists (pp.316-19)

10. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.351-53)

11. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.247)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.132)

13. Legends in Their Own Time (p.60)

14. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.19)

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