While collecting Roald Dahl’s short stories poses challenges, collecting the magazines containing articles and interviews will likely keep one busy for a lifetime – there are many and some are extremely difficult to find. This article is by no means comprehensive – it only represents the ones I have acquired over a number of years.

ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

Argosy US, July 1952, (The Amazing Eyes of Kuda Bux)

Architectural Digest, February 1881 (article – Visit to Gipsy House)

Argosy UK, August 1966 (Profile by S. Merrick: The Writer Who Gets Paid for What He Throws Away)

Decanter, February 1988 (letter – Wine Writer’s Tommyrot)

Decanter, December 1988 (Bin End – Rowe interview/Dahl text)

I-D, #22 February 1985 (Gallacher interview – Children, Chocolate and Gore)

Ladies Home Journal, May 1949 (Article on Love)

Ladies Home Journal, September 1965 (My Wife, Patricia Neal)

Life Magazine, December 18, 1964 (Movie review: Seance On a Wet Afternoon)

Life Magazine, August 18, 1972 (The Glass Elevator preview) 

Nova, October 1972 (Inglis interview)

Observer, October 27, 1968 (short article on death) 

Playboy, June 1967 (An Oriental Eyeful)

 

Playboy, January 1980 (excerpt My Uncle Oswald) 

Puffin Post Vol 7 #1, 1973, (Spotty Powder)

Puffin/Cape Newsletter #2 October(?), 1990 (Dahl intro letter) 

Puffin Post, Vol 9 #1, 1975 (Promo for Glass Elevator & contest)

Quest/81, May 1981, (Romanee-Conti and The Wine Maiden)

Redbook, December 1971 (What I Told Ophelia and Lucy About God)

Saturday Evening Post, (He Plowed up $1,000,000) Sept. 20, 1947

Starburst, Marvel Comics, 1960, #26, Vol. 3 #2 (interview re: Tales of the Unexpected television series)

Starlog, August 1991 (Tom Soter article on screenplay writing for 007 – based on 1980 interview)

Sunday Times Magazine, (A Life In the Day of Roald Dahl) July 25, 1982

Telegraph Magazine, December 4, 2004 (Roald Dahl – photographer

   Unseen Images from a Magical Life)

Telegraph Magazine, May 28, 2016 Nr. F (Love from Roald Letters home

 from Hollywood)

 

The Horn Book – February 1973 (A Reply to E. Cameron)

The Sunday Times – July 20, 1986 (Tales and Tribulations – Cantacuzino interview with Dahl & Tessa)

The Writer, February 1965 (Let’s Build a Skyscraper, but Let’s Find a Good Book First)

The Writer, Aug. 1976 (Writing Children’s Books)

Third Book of Junior Authors (short autobiography in hc)

Twilight Zone, February 1983 VG (Tuttle interview: It’s got to be bloody good) 

Vogue, Feb. 1979 (Lucy Hughes-Hallett interview – Spotlight on Roald Dahl, tall storyteller)

You, April 24, 1983 VG (A. Levin interview ‘At Home With The Storyman’)

You, April 17, 1988 (Article by Tessa Dahl about her father and Matilda)

A FEW RELATED ARTICLES

Decanter, May 2005, (interview with Felicity Dahl about Dahl’s wine collection)

The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, June 5, 2005 (Ophelia Dahl article – Daddy, Champion of the World)

You, September 29, 1991 (D. Askham article ‘The Enchanted Caravan’ & BFG cartoon)

You, October 6, 1991 (Angela Levin interview with Felicity Dahl)

Weekend, November 2, 2002 (Frances Hardy interview with Patricia Neal)

Saturday Review, September 14, 2024 (Lucy Bannerman article on Dahl’s anti-semitism)

Here’s a list of possible additions to the list of articles Dahl wrote or interviews with him. They were supplied by the Dahl Museum Archives who, regretfully, weren’t always able to determine if the article was published, or the name of the magazine it appeared in or the date (the dates held at the Museum were often related to when something was completed or sent rather than its publishing date).

– The Lancet (Wade-Dahl-Till valve) – published possibly in 1963 or 1964 but no month or issue number

– October 30, 1965 Woman’s Mirror (A Cautionary Tale for Parents)

– Sept. 28, 1976 Happy End (Japanese magazine – the name wasn’t supplied)

– 1980 (?)  (no firm date or source) review of McBain book ‘Ghosts’

-1981 Penguin (Punishment – weren’t positive that it was published)

– July 20, 1982 Puffin Post (On Grandmothers) date doesn’t conform with Puffin’s usual format for this period – it might perhaps be in Vol. 16 #3 – fall, 1982

– August 1983 Literary Review (Not a Chivalrous Affair – review of Clifton/Leroy book ‘God Cried’ (unable to determine whether this was in a Literary Review from the US or the UK. I recently saw a copy of the August 18-24, 1983 issue of Time Out magazine (#678) that contained this article and wondered if it might be the actual publisher.

– June 1985 Penguin (A Visit to Roald Dahl – weren’t positive that it was published)

– 1987 NSPCC publication called When We Were Young (There was no information as to whether this is a newsletter or something else.

– an article entitled ‘Joss Spivis’)

– October (?) 1986 Sunday Times (My Time of Life)

– Sept. 1989 The Children’s Book Council NY, (weren’t positive that it was published)

– Oct. 1989 Observer – a short work on children’s books but no title supplied

– March 1990 WETA magazine (a television guide?) contains Roald Dahl Speaks Out and Books Remembered and Books of Today

-June (?) 1990 The Independent on Sunday (A Book That Changed Me)

-No.4 Oct 3, 1976 Telegraph Sunday Magazine (A Master of the Macabre)

– November 1979 Good Life (The Unexpected Mr. Dahl)

– November 1979 Woman’s Journal (Tales of the Unexpected: Roald Dahl)

-Vol. 8 Spring 1980 The Good Book Guide (Profile)

– June 4, 1980 Bootleg (Roald Dahl)

– June 6, 1980 Publishers’ Weekly (Crichton interview)

– December 1981 Early Years (Roald Dahl: An Iconoclast…)

– August 1983 Woman and Home (Reading Between the Lines)

– Vol. 280, No.4, April 1985 The Tatler (The Orchid Age)

– October 1987 Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Limited Edition (Hoare interview) (I was not able to confirm the date on this article)

– New York Neal Schuman 1988 (West – ‘Trust Your Children: Voices Against censorship)

– Sept. 24, 1989 Sunday Express (Barber interview)

– June 21, 1990 Children’s Literature in Education (West interview)

– no source or date for the anti-Israeli letter he wrote