Dip in the Pool—The New Yorker, January 1952
A Picture for Drioli (later renamed Skin)—The New Yorker, May 1952
My Lady Love, My Dove—The New Yorker, June 1952
Mr. Feasey—The New Yorker, August 1953
Lamb to the Slaughter—Harper’s, September 1953
The Devious Bachelor (later renamed Nunc Dimittis)—Collier’s, September 1953
Edward the Conqueror—The New Yorker, October 1953
Galloping Foxley—Town and Country, November 1953
The Way Up to Heaven—The New Yorker, February 1954
Parson’s Pleasure—Esquire, April 1958
The Champion of the World—The New Yorker, January 1959
The Landlady—The New Yorker, November 1959
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat—Nugget, December 1959
A Fine Son (later renamed Genesis and Catastrophe)—Playboy, December 1959
In the Ruins, first published in the program of the World Book Fair, June 1964
The Visitor—Playboy, May 1965
The Last Act—Playboy, January 1966
The Great Switcheroo—Playboy, April 1974
The Butler Did It (later renamed The Butler)—Travel and Leisure, May 1974
Bitch—Playboy, July 1974
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life—The New Yorker, September 1974
The Hitchhiker—Atlantic Monthly, August 1977
The Umbrella Man in Tales of the Unexpected (New York: Vintage ed., Random House, 1979)
Mr. Botibol in More Tales of the Unexpected (London: Michael Joseph, 1980)
Vengeance Is Mine, Inc. in More Tales of the Unexpected
The Bookseller—Playboy, January 1987
The Surgeon—Playboy, January 1988
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Over to You (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946)
(Death of an Old, Old Man, An African Story, A Piece of Cake, Madame Rosette, Katina, Yesterday Was Beautiful, They Shall Not Grow Old, Beware of the Dog, Only This and Someone Like You)
Someone Like You (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953) (Taste, Lamb to the Slaughter, Man from the South, The Soldier, My Lady Love, My Dove, Dip in the Pool, Galloping Foxley, Skin, Poison, The Wish, Neck, The Sound Machine, Nunc Dimittis, The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Claud’s Dog: The Ratcatcher, Rummins, Mr. Hoddy and Mr. Feasey)
Kiss Kiss (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960)
(The Landlady, William and Mary, The Way Up to Heaven, Parson’s Pleasure, Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat, Royal Jelly, Georgy Porgy, Genesis and Catastrophe, Edward the Conqueror, Pig and The Champion of the World)
Switch Bitch (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974)
(The Last Act, Bitch, The Great Switcheroo and The Visitor)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977)
(The Boy Who Talked with Animals, The Hitchhiker, The Mildenhall Treasure, The Swan, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer and A Piece of Cake)
Two Fables (London: Viking, 1986)
(The Princess and the Poacher, Princess Mammalia)
BOOKS—FIRST PUBLICATION
The Gremlins. Walt Disney/Random House, 1943
Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen. Scribner’s, 1948*James and the Giant Peach. Alfred A. Knopf, 1961
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964
The Magic Finger. Harper & Row, 1966
Fantastic Mr. Fox. Alfred A. Knopf, 1970
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
Danny The Champion of the World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1975
The Enormous Crocodile. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
My Uncle Oswald. Michael Joseph, 1979
The Twits. Jonathan Cape, 1980
George’s Marvellous Medicine. Jonathan Cape, 1981
Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhyme. Jonathan Cape, 1982
The BFG. Jonathan Cape, 1982
Dirty Beasts. Jonathan Cape, 1983
The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983
Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.
Boy: Tales of Childhood. Jonathan Cape, 1984
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Jonathan Cape, 1985
Going Solo. Jonathan Cape, 1986
Matilda. Jonathan Cape, 1988
Rhyme Stew. Jonathan Cape, 1989
Esio Trot. Jonathan Cape, 1990
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke. Random Century Group, 1991
The Minpins. Jonathan Cape, 1991
Roald Dahl’s Guide to Railway Safety. British Railways Board, 1991
Memories with Food at Gipsy House (with Felicity Dahl). Viking, 1991; later reprinted as The Roald Dahl Cookbook
The Roald Dahl Diary (later renamed My Year). Jonathan Cape, 1991
The Roald Dahl Treasury. Jonathan Cape, 1997
More About Boy. Puffin Books, 2008
UNPUBLISHED WORK (SELECTED)
The Kumbak II, short story, 1926
The Ginger Cat, short story, c. 1945
World Leaders, short story, c. 1945
Foreign Intelligence, short story, 1947
The Dogchild, short story, 1948
Nineteen Fifty What? short story, 1950
“Maclean and Burgess: The Great Vanishing Trick,” article, 1951
PLAYS
The Honeys. Performed at the Longacre Theater, New York, 1955
SCREENPLAYS AND TELEPLAYS FOR COMPLETED FEATURE FILMS AND TELEVISION DRAMA
Lamb to the Slaughter, for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, April 13, 1958
William and Mary, for Way Out, March 1, 1961
You Only Live Twice, 1967
Chity Chitty Bang Bang (with Ken Hughes), 1968
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
The Night Digger, 1971
SELECTED JOURNALISM
Shot Down Over Libya—Saturday Evening Post (August 1942).
“Let’s Build a Skyscraper,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 1, 1964.
“He Plowed Up $1,000,000” (later renamed The Mildenhall Treasure), Saturday Evening Post (September 1947).
“Love,” Ladies’ Home Journal (May 1949).
“The Amazing Eyes of Kuda Bux,” Argosy magazine (July 1952).
“My Wife: Patricia Neal,” Ladies’ Home Journal (September 1965).
“What I Told Ophelia and Lucy About God,” Redbook (November 1970).
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Reply,” The Horn Book Magazine (February 1973).
“A Note on Writing Books for Children,” The Writer (Boston) (October 1975).
“Gipsy House,” Architectural Digest (June 1980).
“On Grandmothers,” Puffin Post (July 1982).
Searching for Mr. Smith, Browse & Darby Catalogue, 1983.
“Not a Chivalrous Affair,” The Literary Review (August 1983).
“My Time of Life,” The Sunday Times, October 1986.
“Roald Dahl Speaks Out,” WETA magazine (March 1990).
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UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
Appleby, Paul H. Reminiscences. Department of Oral History, Columbia University.
Dahl, Ophelia. Memories of My Father.
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION
Interview with Helen Edwards for Bedtime Stories, California, July 1970.
Roald Dahl, Interviewed for A Man Called Intrepid, CBC Television, 1974.
Parkinson, BBC Television, December 1978.
Bookmark, BBC Television, 1985.
A Dose of Dahl’s Magic Medicine, an appreciation of the writer Roald Dahl (audiotape) 9/28/1986—RDMSC RD 12/1/27.
Todd McCormack, The Author’s Eye, 1986.
Television interview with Sue Lawley, 1988.
Radio interview with Terry Lane, April 1989, © Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1990.
An Awfully Big Adventure, BBC Television, Jan. 1, 1998.
* The English version of this book was published as Sometime Never. For consistency, I have used the American version Some Time Never throughout.
Photo Credits
Copyright © Roald Dahl (France), 1
Copyright © Bryony Dahl, 2
Copyright © RDNL; permission courtesy of The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50
Reproduced by permission of Repton School, 7
Copyright © Disney Enterprises, Inc., 19
Copyright © Hulton Archive/Getty Images, 20
Copyright © Bettmann/CORBIS, 21
Copyright © Thomas D. McAvoy/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images, 22
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