Roald Dahl is best known for his children's stories. His first -- and arguably his most famous -- was James and the Giant Peach, published in 1961, when Dahl was already in his mid-40s. But prior to ...

Through British writer Roald Dahl’s many worlds, we encounter peculiar characters and dreamt-up words. The Dahl vocabulary is so vast that today there is an Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary brimming with ...

A series of Roald Dahl shorts do — and don’t do — the trick. Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar leads the anthology of four short films based on stories by British literary fantasist ...

Actor John Lithgow has reflected on Roald Dahl’s “complicated” legacy, as he stars as the late author in the West End play Giant. Lithgow, 79, portrays the children’s writer during a period in his ...

Director Nicholas Hytner told The Sunday Times that he knew Lithgow had to play Dahl because “even though he is the sweetest man, he does have the most extraordinary talent for playing monstrous ...