Proud of all of your sin No more battles you will win And the army goes marching to hell.

Novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter                          

Selected Works:

Children's Stories:
The Gremlins - 1943
James and the Giant Peach - 1961 – Film: James and the Giant Peach - live-action/animated - 1996

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 1964 – Films: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - 1971 and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 2005

The Magic Finger - 1 June 1966
Fantastic Mr Fox - 9 December 1970 – Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox - animated - 2009
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - 9 January 1972, a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Danny, the Champion of the World - 30 October 1975 – Film: Danny the Champion of the World - TV movie - 1989
The Enormous Crocodile - 1978
The Twits - 17 December 1980
George's Marvellous Medicine - 1981
The BFG - 14 October 1982 – Film: The BFG - animated - 1989
The Witches - 27 October 1983 – Film: The Witches - 1990
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - 1985
Matilda - 21 April 1988 – Film: Matilda - 1996
Esio Trot - 19 April 1989
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke - 9 May 1990
The Minpins - 1991

Children's Poetry:
Revolting Rhymes - 1982
Dirty Beasts - 1984
Rhyme Stew - 1989

Adult Fiction: Novels
Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen - 1948
My Uncle Oswald - 1979

Short Story Collections:

Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying - 1946
Someone Like You - 1953
Lamb to the Slaughter - 1953
Kiss Kiss - 1960
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl - 1969
Switch Bitch - 1974
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - 1977
The Best of Roald Dahl - 1978
Tales of the Unexpected - 1979
More Tales of the Unexpected - 1980
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories - 1983. Edited with an introduction by Dahl.
The Roald Dahl Omnibus - 1986

Two Fables - Princess and the Poacher and Princess Mammalia - 1986

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl - 1989
The Collected Short Stories of Dahl - 1991
The Roald Dahl Treasury - 1997
The Great Automatic Grammatizator - 1997. - Known in the USA as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories.
Skin And Other Stories - 2000
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories - 2006



Non-Fiction:

The Mildenhall Treasure - 1946, 1977, 1999
Boy – Tales of Childhood - 1984 Recollections up to the age of 20, looking particularly at schooling in Britain in the early part of the 20th century.

Going Solo - 1986 Continuation of his autobiography, in which he goes to work for Shell and spends some time working in Tanzania before joining the war effort and becoming one of the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion.

Measles, a Dangerous Illness - 1986 
Memories with Food at Gipsy House - 1991
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety - 1991
My Year - 1993
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. - 1994, a collection of recipes based on and inspired by food in Dahl's books, created by Roald & Felicity Dahl and Josie Fison
Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. - 2001



Film Scripts:

The Gremlins - 1943
36 Hours - 1965
You Only Live Twice - 1967
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1968
The Night Digger - 1971
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - 1971

Television:

Way Out - 1961 Horror series hosted by Roald Dahl and produced by David Susskind
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Lamb to the Slaughter - 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Dip in the Pool - 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Poison - 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man from the South - 1960 with Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat - 1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Landlady - 1961
Tales of the Unexpected - 1979–1988, episodes written and introduced by Dahl

Plays:

The Honeys - 1955 Produced at the Longacre Theater on Broadway.
Published in 1978 in an omnibus edition titled The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka.                          

Mother Sofie Magdalene Dahl née Hesselberg
Father  Harald Dahl, four  children, three sisters.

When Roald Dahl was three years old, his seven-year-old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. Weeks later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57.

First wife Patricia Neal - 1953–1983; divorced; 5 children

Second wife Felicity Ann d'Abreu Crosland - 1983–1990; his death                          

See the alphabetical List of Roald Dahl short stories. Also Roald Dahl: Collected Stories for a complete, chronological listing.