Roald Dahl (46 page)

“Gremlins, The,” (story),
69

Griffin, Merv,
179

Griffith, Valerie Eaton,
208

Grimms Hill,
180

Guardian
,
272

Gyldendal (publisher),
121

Haigh, Kenneth,
219

Haines, Claudia,
see
Marsh, Claudia Haines

Halifax, Lord,
75

Hamish Hamilton, publisher,
160

Hammett, Dashiell,
138

Hampshire, Stuart,
30

Hansen, Leslie (brother-in-law),
182

Harper & Row,
194

Harper's
,
112

Hartford, Josephine,
128

Harwood, Johanna,
176

Hayter, William,
57

Heins, Ethel L.,
149

Hellman, Lillian,
110

Hemingway, Ernest,
108

“He Plowed Up $1,000,000,”
94

Heppenstall, Rayner,
65

Hesselberg, Ellen Wallace (grandmother),
13

Hesselberg, Karl (grandfather),
13

Hesselberg, Sofie,
see
Dahl, Sofie Hesselberg (mother)

Highton, Douglas,
273

Hill, Tom,
74

Hitler, Adolf,
257

Hoban, Russell,
226

Hollywood Reporter, The
,
187

Honeys, The
,
124

Hopkins, John,
176

Horn Book, The
,
202

Horrocks, Jimmy,
37

Houston Post
,
120

“How I Became a Writer,”
216

Hud
,
161

Hughes, Ken,
183–84

Huston, Anjelica,
272

Hyde, H. Montgomery,
212

Icarus, S.A.,
247

illustrators,
193
;
see also
Blake, Quentin; Fawcett, Rosemary

Ingersoll, Ralph,
99

Institute of Pacific Relations,
75

Irons, Jeremy,
272

Isocrates,
89

Itzin, Catherine,
243

“I Want to Grow Up,”
251

Jackson, Glenda,
250

James and the Giant Peach
,
247

Jameson, Storm,
145

Jaques, Faith,
193

Jewish Chronicle
,
258

John, Augustus,
98

Johnson, Lyndon,
61

Johnson, Paul,
257

Jonathan Cape, publisher,
240
,
264
;
see also
Maschler, Tom

Jones, “Tap,”
49

Jong, Erica,
244–45

Jurgens, Curt,
148

Kael, Pauline,
184

“Katina,”
146

Kazan, Elia,
125

Keene, Mary,
54

Kelly, James,
223

Kemp, Peter,
269

Kendall, Carol,
273

Kirwan, Angela,
168

Kiss Kiss
,
201

Knopf, Alfred,
265

Knopf, Blanche,
160

Knopf (publisher): beginning of association,
232–33
;
see also
Gottlieb, Robert; Knopf, Alfred; Wang, Arthur

Ladies' Home Journal
,
101

“Lamb to the Slaughter,”
105

Landsberg, Michele,
244

“Last Act, The,”
243

Latuchie, Karen,
231

Lawrence, D. H.,
120

Lawrence, T. E.,
217

Lazar, Irving,
156

Lee, Laurie,
270

Lemay, Harding,
156

Lessing, Gunther,
71

Levick, George Murray,
33

Library Journal
,
156

Life
magazine,
173

Lillie, Helen,
77

Literary Review
,
257

Little Whitefield,
140

Llandaff, Wales,
209

Lobrano, Gustave,
123

Logsdail, John (brother-in-law),
128

Longlea,
60

“Love,”
101

Luce, Clare Boothe,
75

McLean, Evalyn Walsh,
61

McLuhan, Marshall,
202

Macmillan (publisher),
150

Magic Finger, The
,
228

Maibaum, Richard,
184

“Man from the South,”
112

Mankowitz, Wolf,
176

Marsh, Alice,
81

Marsh, Antoinette,
59

Marsh, Charles: advises Neal,
6

Marsh, Claudia Haines,
199

Martha's Vineyard,
219–20

Maschler, Tom,
255

Matilda
,
268

Maxim coffee,
208

Mayer, Peter,
276

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP),
257

Memories with Food at Gipsy House
,
254

“Menace, The,”
93

Merv Griffin Show, The
,
179

Miles, Ashley,
145–46

Military Hospital for Head Injuries,
84

Minpins, The
,
272–73

Moby Dick
(movie),
174

Modern Library,
201

Moorehead, Alan,
205

More Tales of the Unexpected
,
248

Moss, Elaine,
193

Moyns Park,
128–29

“Mr. Feasey,”
111

Murdoch, Iris,
265

Mussolini, Benito,
40

“My Lady Love, My Dove,”
111

Mystery Writers of America,
121

My Uncle Oswald
,
269

Neal, Patricia: autobiography,
As I Am
,
223–24

Neal, Peter (brother-in-law),
116

Nest in a Falling Tree
,
186

Neustatter, Angela,
219

Newby, P. H.,
106

Newhouse, Si,
247

Newman, Paul,
148

New Republic, The
,
258

Newsweek
,
255

New Yorker, The:
publishes “The Champion of the World,”
199

New York Times, The
,
159

New York Times Book Review, The
,
244

Night Digger, The
,
190

Northwestern University,
103

Norway,
199

“Nunc Dimittis,”
243

Oakwood,
93

Ogilvy, David,
212

O'Neill, Eugene,
103

“Only This,”
69

Orkin, Harvey,
138

Over to You
,
248

Page, Anthony,
250

Pantheon Books,
195

“Parson's Pleasure,”
131

Pat and Roald
,
250

Patricia Neal Story, The
,
250

Patterson, Cissy,
61

Patterson, Paul,
275

Pattle, Thomas,
46

Pearce, Perce,
66

Pearl, Dennis,
214

Pearson, Drew,
57

Pearson, John,
175

Peel, Major,
47

Pegg, Antony,
36

Pell, Claiborne,
109

Penguin,
260
;
see also
Viking Penguin

“People Nowadays,”
93

Perkins, Max,
264

Phelps, Robert,
132

Pick, Charles,
160

“Picture for Drioli, A,”
93

“Piece of Cake, A,”
43

“Pig,”
239

Playboy
,
260

“Poison,”
112

Pollinger, Laurence,
160

Pollinger, Murray,
263–64

“Porcupine, The,”
239

Powell, Enoch,
268

Power, Tyrone,
108

Powling, Chris,
250

“Princess and the Poacher, The,”
260

“Princess Mammalia,”
260

Pritchett, V. S.,
248

Public Welfare Foundation,
275

Publishers Weekly
,
270

Pudney, John,
71

Queen Elizabeth II,
238

Quennell, Peter,
248

racism,
201–3

Random House,
248

Rankin, Ian,
212

“Ratcatcher, The,”
111

Reagan, Ronald,
103

Reid, Alastair,
189

Repton School,
22–31

Revolting Rhymes
,
239

Reynal and Hitchcock (publisher),
85

Ritt, Martin,
163

Roald Dahl
(book),
250

Roald Dahl Foundation,
275

Roald Dahl Newsletter
,
272

Robinson, Robert,
205

Rodgers, Richard,
104

Rogers, Millicent,
60

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
71

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
76

Rose, Stuart,
92–93

Rothman, Sydney,
96

Roxburgh, Stephen,
249

Royal Air Force,
62

Royal Dutch Shell,
37–38

Rubin, Steven Jay,
177

“Rummins,”
105

Runyon, Damon,
36

Rushdie, Salman,
270

Saltzman, Harry,
175

Saturday Evening Post, The
,
92

Saturday Review of Literature
,
The
,
86

Saunders, Wally,
225

Savory, Gerald,
147

Schindelman, Joseph,
152

Scribner's,
94

Secker & Warburg,
121

Sellers, Peter,
210

Sells, David,
29

Seltzer, David,
190

Selznick, David O.,
104

Sendak, Maurice,
152

Sereny, Gitta,
212

Shale, Richard,
67

Shawn, William,
199

Shell Oil Co.,
37–38

“Shot Down over Libya,”
70

Sibley, Brian,
266

Simeon, Michael,
193

Sinclair, Archibald,
55

Siodmak, Curt,
123

“Skin,”
111

Slavetin, Susan,
219

Smith, Matthew,
129

“Smoked Cheese,”
228

Society of Authors,
269

“Soldier, The,”
86–87

Someone Like You
,
248

“Someone Like You,”
85

Sometime Never
,
256

“Sound Machine, The,”
101

Southern Coal and Coke Company,
103

sparkiness,
206

Spectator, The
,
257

Stears, John,
176

Stephenson, William,
80

Stewart-Liberty, Elizabeth,
274

St. Peter's School,
19–22

Straight, Michael,
86

Strategic Intelligence Service,
73

Straus, Roger,
258

Strauss, Harold,
111

Stuart, Mel,
190

Sunday Express
,
270

Sunday Times, The
,
131

“Surgeon, The,”
260

“Swan, The,”
273

Switch Bitch
,
201

“Sword, The,”
111

Tales of the Unexpected
,
258

Tanganyika,
41

Tanzania,
see
Dar es Salaam

“Taste,”
110–11

Taylor, Claud,
126

Taylor, Judy,
161

Terraine, John,
44

“They Shall Not Grow Old,”
72

Third Programme,
93

36 Hours
,
174

This Is Your Life
,
218–19

Throckmorton family,
225

Till, Kenneth,
148

Tilley, R. Sugden,
64

Time
magazine,
124

Times, The
,
193

Times Educational Supplement
,
The
,
243

Times Literary Supplement, The
,
131

Tolkien, J.R.R.,
192

Town and Country
,
112

Tremain, Rose,
270

Tucci, Maria,
199–200

“Tummy Beast, The,”
239

Twits
,
The
,
238

Ty Gwyn,
13

Ty Mynydd,
14

Uncle Oswald,
216–17

Unwin, Camilla,
191

Unwin, Rayner,
236

Updike, John,
265

“Valley of the Dahls,”
82
,
118
;
see also
Great Missenden

Varga, Judy,
69

Variety
,
187

Vicar of Nibbleswicke, The
,
272

Vidal, Gore,
268

Viking Penguin,
270

Villa Marie,
13

“Visitor, The,”
201

Volunteer Stroke Scheme,
208

Wade, Stanley,
143–44

Waldrop, Frank,
61