77. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989—RDMSC RD 12/1/35.
78. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, undated (1972 file)—WLC Box 28.
79. Roald Dahl, Letter to Marion McNamara (Ann Watkins Inc.), 01/07/69—WLC Box 28.
80. Roald Dahl, Letter to Tom Maschler, 05/11/87—FSG.
81. Roald Dahl, Letters to Roger Straus, 01/07/82, and Tom Maschler, 05/11/87—FSG.
82. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 01/29/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
83. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 02/12/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
84. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 10/08/79—HRCH KNOPF 823.7.
85. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 12/04/79—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
86. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 04/05/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
87. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 01/24/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
88. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 02/28/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
89. Gerald Hollingsworth, Memo to Bob Gottlieb, 03/18/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
90. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 06/08/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
91. Karen Latuchie, Letter to Roald Dahl, 06/14/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
92. Roald Dahl, Letter to Karen Latuchie, 07/01/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
93. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 06/10/80—HRCH KNOPF 550.7.
94. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 08/06/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
95. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 09/09/80—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
96. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 09/22/80—RDMSC RD 1/4/11.
97. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 02/03/81—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
98. Frances Foster, Letter to Roald Dahl, 02/04/81—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
99. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 02/10/81—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
100. Roald Dahl, Letter to Anne McCormick (Legal Department), 02/10/81—RDMSC RD 1/1/10/9.
101. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 02/10/81—HRCH KNOPF 823.8.
102. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 03/05/81—HRCH KNOPF.
103. Bob Gottlieb, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
104. Bob Gottlieb cited in Treglown, p. 233.
105. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 03/12/81—HRCH KNOPF 553.1.
106. Bob Gottlieb, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
107. Roald Dahl, Letter to Janet Schulman, 10/15/86—RDMSC RD 1/1/10/88.
108. Roald Dahl, Letter to Gerald Harrison (Random House), 05/21/87—FSG.
109. Roald Dahl, Letter to Roger Straus, 01/07/82—FSG.
110. Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy, God Cried (London: Quartet Books, 1983).
111. Felicity Dahl, Conversation with the author, 11/20/06.
112. Roald Dahl, “Not a Chivalrous Affair,” The Literary Review (August 1983).
113. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
114. Dahl, “Not a Chivalrous Affair.”
115. Roald Dahl, Letter to Gillian Greenwood, 06/27/83—RDMSC RD 1/2/7.
116. Roald Dahl, Letter to The Times, Sept. 15, 1983.
117. Dahl quoted in Mike Coren, “Tale of the Unexpected,” The New Statesman, Aug. 26, 1983.
118. Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye.
119. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 01/09/81—Howard Gotlieb Collection, University of Boston.
120. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
121. Charlotte Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/12/10.
122. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
123. Ophelia Dahl, 03/17/08.
124. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 01/22/98.
125. Roald Dahl, Letter to Whitworth Festival, 01/14/72—RDMSC RD 1/2/3/173.
126. Roald Dahl, Letter to Mr. R. A. Bowles, Programme Secretary, The Round Table of Uxbridge, 05/19/72—RDMSC RD 1/2/3/197.
127. Jeremy Stubbs, Conversation with the author, 10/08/07.
128. Peter Lennon, Interview with Roald Dahl, in The Times, Dec. 22, 1983.
129. Roald Dahl, Letter to The Times, Feb. 27, 1989—RDMSC RD 1/6/17.
130. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989—RDMSC RD 12/1/35.
131. Nicholas Logsdail, Conversation with the author, 04/24/08.
132. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
133. Roald Dahl, Interview with Peter Lennon in The Times, Dec. 22, 1983.
134. Roald Dahl, “Let’s Build a Skyscraper,” New York Times Book Review, Christmas 1964.
135. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 10/01/64—WLC Box 26.
136. Felicity Dahl, Conversation with the author, 11/19/06.
137. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/08.
138. Astri Newman, Conversation with the author, 10/15/07.
139. Roald Dahl, Letter to Patricia Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 11/09/71—Ophelia Dahl Collection.
140. Patricia Fitzmaurice-Kelly, Letter to Roald Dahl, 11/16/71—Ophelia Dahl Collection.
141. Roald Dahl, Letter to Patricia Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 11/17/71—Ophelia Dahl Collection.
142. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
143. Roald Dahl, Letter to Police Complaints Commission, 07/89—RDMSC RD 1/6/9.
144. The BFG, p. 52.
CHAPTER NINETEEN : The Wizard and the Wonderman
1. Roald Dahl, “Books Remembered and Books of Today,” later published in WETA magazine (March 1990) as “Roald Dahl Speaks Out”—RDMSC RD 6/2/136.
2. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 01/07/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/8/1–2.
3. Roald Dahl interviewed for Bedtime Stories, Los Angeles, 1970.
4. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
5. Roald Dahl, Letter to Douglas Highton, undated (c. 1984)—Property of Douglas Highton.
6. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
7. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
8. Roald Dahl, Ten Days with Roald Dahl, 06/17/85—RDMSC RD 6/7.
9. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/11/08.
10. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
11. Quentin Blake, Conversation with the author, 01/19/09.
12. Roald Dahl, interviewed for Bedtime Stories, Los Angeles, 1970.
13. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 12/29/81—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/6.
14. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 10/07/81—Howard Gotlieb Collection, University of Boston.
15. Roald Dahl, Ideas Book—RDMSC RD 11/2.
16. The BFG, p. 56.
17. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 12/29/81—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/6.
18. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 01/13/98.
19. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 03/01/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/21.
20. Stephen Roxburgh, Letter to Roald Dahl, 03/05/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/27.
21. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
22. Ibid.
23. Gina Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
24. Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine, (1981), p. 8.
25. Quentin Blake, Conversation with the author, 01/06/98.
26. Roald Dahl, Letter to Tom Maschler, 02/17/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/16.
27. Roald Dahl, Letter to Tom Maschler, 02/21/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/17.
28. Quentin Blake, Conversation with the author, 01/06/98.
29. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 04/07/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/34.
30. Quentin Blake, Conversations with the author, 01/06/98 and 01/19/09.
31. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 01/07/82—RDMSC RD 1/4/14/8/1–2.
32. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
33. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
34. Roald Dahl, Article on The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, written for the Jonathan Cape in-
house newsletter 06/25/85 and subsequently published in The Roald Dahl Treasury—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/21.
35. Stephen Roxburgh, Letter to Roald Dahl, 09/26/84—FSG.
36. Roald Dahl, Letter to Roger Straus, 08/17/84—FSG.
37. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 10/22/81—HGC.
38. Roald Dahl, Untitled autobiography for Knopf pamphlet—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/18.
39. Memories with Food at Gipsy House, p. 227.
40. Joanna Lumley, Conversation with the author, 01/18/09.
41. Roald Dahl, Interview with Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye.
42. Roald Dahl, Letter to Mr. Kentzer, Headmaster of Redgate Middle School, 09/17/84—RDMSC RD 1/2/8/52.
43. Roger Straus, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
44. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversations with the author, 03/13/09 and 01/13/98.
45. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
46. Wendy Kress, Conversation with the author, 08/05/09.
47. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
48. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 05/15/64—WLC Box 26.
49. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 10/31/64—WLC Box 26.
50. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
51. Roald Dahl, Letter to Lawrence Pollinger, 02/14/69—RDMSC RD 1/2/2/241.
52. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 02/14/69—WLC Box 28.
53. Murray Pollinger, Letter to Roald Dahl, 03/04/69—RDMSC RD 1/2/2/253.
54. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
55. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
56. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
57. John Libson, Letter to Roald Dahl, 05/02/86—GHPP.
58. Roald Dahl, Letter to John Radstone, 04/29/80—GHPP.
59. Roald Dahl, Letter to Murray Pollinger, 05/23/86—GHPP.
60. Martin Goodwin, Conversation with the author, 02/23/10.
61. Bill Geffen, Draft Report to the Inland Revenue, July 1986—GHPP.
62. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bill Geffen, 09/26/86—GHPP.
63. Roald Dahl, Letter to C. G. White of The Inland Revenue, 07/28/86—GHPP.
64. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alan Langridge, 01/13/87—GHPP.
65. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alan Langridge, 02/23/87—GHPP.
66. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alan Langridge, 09/16/87—GHPP.
67. Roald Dahl, Letter to C. G. White of the Inland Revenue, 09/16/87—GHPP.
68. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
69. The Witches, p. 73.
70. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 04/22/83—FSG.
71. The Witches, p. 197.
72. Stephen Roxburgh, Letter to Roald Dahl, 04/28/83—RDMSC RD 1/4/15.
73. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 05/16/83—FSG.
74. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
75. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
76. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversations with the author, 01/13/98 and 03/13/09.
77. Stephen Roxburgh, Letter to Roald Dahl, 05/03/85—FSG.
78. Ophelia Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 09/25/85.
79. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
80. Ibid.
81. Roald Dahl, “Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Eighteen,” Unpublished article for the Sunday Express Magazine—RDMSC RD 1/2/7.
82. Roald Dahl, Letter to Lucy Dahl, 02/09/82—LDC.
83. Roald Dahl, Letter to Lucy Dahl, 02/11/82—LDC.
84. Wendy Kress, Conversation with the author, 08/05/09.
85. Gina Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
86. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
87. Interview with Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye.
88. Roger Straus, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
89. Interview with Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye.
90. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
91. Roger Straus, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
92. Wendy Kress, Conversation with the author, 08/05/09.
93. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
94. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stephen Roxburgh, 01/15/88—RDMSC RD 1/4/20.
95. Stephen Roxburgh, Letter to Roald Dahl, 01/26/88—RDMSC RD 1/4/20.
96. Roger Straus, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
97. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversations with the author, 03/13/09 and 01/13/98.
98. Liz Attenborough, Conversation with the author, 02/08/10.
99. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
100. Roald Dahl, “Gipsy House,” Architectural Digest (June 1980)—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/16.
101. Roald Dahl, Speech to Boys at Repton, Nov. 21, 1975—RDMSC RD 6//1/25.
102. Liz Attenborough, Conversation with the author, 02/08/10.
103. Anna Corrie, Conversation with the author, 10/08/07.
104. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
105. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/14/09.
106. Roald Dahl, “Let’s Build a Skyscraper,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 1, 1944.
107. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 12/21/66—HRCH KNOPF 524.12.
108. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989.
109. Roald Dahl, Interview with Helen Edwards, for Bedtime Stories, California, July 1970.
110. Roald Dahl, Notes for Dr. Streule’s lecture to Bristol, September 1990—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/41.
111. Roald Dahl, A Note on Writing Books for Children (sent to The Writer, Boston, Oct. 4, 1975)—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/12.
CHAPTER TWENTY: No Point in Struggling
1. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
2. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
3. Charlotte Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/12/10.
4. Roald Dahl, “My Time of Life,” The Sunday Times, October 1986—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/27.
5. Roald Dahl, “On Grandmothers,” Puffin Post, July 20, 1982—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/20.
6. “My Time of Life.”
7. Quentin Blake, Conversation with the author, 01/19/09.
8. Wendy Kress, Conversation with the author, 08/05/09.
9. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
10. Roald Dahl, The Minpins (London: Jonathan Cape, 1991), p. 43.
11. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
12. Roald Dahl, Letter to Anthony Cheetham, 11/17/89—RDMSC RD 1/2/9.
13. Roald Dahl, Letter to Murray Pollinger, 11/16/89—RDMSC RD 1/2/9/3.
14. Martin Goodwin, Conversation with the author, 02/23/10.
15. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
16. Amanda Conquy, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
17. Roald Dahl, Letter to N. L. Wicks, 11/18/85—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
18. Neal, As I Am, p. 363.
19. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
20. Felicity Dahl, Conversation with the author, 02/06/10.
21. Roald Dahl, Newsletter No. 2 for Puffin Books,? Summer 1990. [No. 1 is dated April 1990; No. 3 was published after his death]—RDMSC AC 56.
22. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
23. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
24. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
25. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
26. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
27. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
28. Lucy Dahl, E-mail to the author, 10/13/08.
29. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
30. Death of an Old, Old
Man in Collected Stories, p. 94.
31. David Weatherall, Letter to Felicity Dahl, undated—Felicity Dahl Collection.
32. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
33. Roald Dahl, Mr. Bubbler Notes—RDMSC RD 11/3/23.
34. Roald Dahl, Notes and Sketches—RDMSC RD 11/3/3, RD 11/3/19, and RD 11/3/24/3.
35. Stephen Roxburgh, Conversation with the author, 03/13/09.
36. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
37. Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles (1920).
38. Peter Mayer, Tribute given at Roald Dahl’s funeral, Nov. 29, 1990.
39. Nicholas Logsdail, Conversation with the author, 04/24/08.
40. Murray and Gina Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 04/10/09.
41. Tom Maschler, Conversation with the author, 02/09/98.
42. Quentin Blake, Conversation with the author, 01/19/09.
43. Interview with Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye.
44. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
45. Roald Dahl, The Sound Machine in Collected Stories, p. 204.
46. Roald Dahl, Speech to the Oxford Union, May 29, 1981—RDMSC RD 6/1/6.
47. Roald Dahl, Conversation with the author, 1985.
48. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
49. Roald Dahl, Untitled article (1965)—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/23.
50. Roald Dahl, Interviewed by Helen Edwards for Bedtime Stories, California, July 1970.
51. Roald Dahl, Ten Days with Roald Dahl, 06/17/85—RDMSC RD 6/7.
Bibliography
SHORT STORIES—FIRST PUBLICATION
The Sword—Atlantic, August 1943
Katina—Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1944
Only This—Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1944
Beware of the Dog—Harper’s, October 1944
Missing: Believed Killed—Tomorrow magazine, November 1944
They Shall Not Grow Old—Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1945
Madame Rosette—Harper’s, August 1945
Death of an Old, Old Man—Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1945
Someone Like You—Town and Country, November 1945
Collector’s Item (later renamed Man from the South)—Collier’s, September 1948
The Sound Machine—The New Yorker, September 1949
Poison—Collier’s, June 1950
Girl Without a Name—Today’s Woman, November 1951
Taste—The New Yorker, December 1951
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