It has appeared in hundreds of articles and documentaries about him and is a centerpiece of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. And then there are the stories of his boasting, his bullying, his orneriness, his anti-Semitism, balanced over time by acts of kindness and charity, and by the posthumous work of a foundation in his name.Īlmost everyone, though, knows about the shed. You may recall his short story about a woman who clubs her husband to death with a leg of lamb and disguises the murder weapon by roasting it or his marriage to Hollywood star Patricia Neal and the agonies that slowly destroyed it or the first of his best-selling children’s books, James and the Giant Peach, or the richer, fuller later ones written during his second, happy marriage, such as The BFG, a tale about a big friendly giant, adapted into the new Disney film directed by Steven Spielberg. Different people know different things about Roald Dahl.
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