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'Storyteller,' Donald Sturrock's Authorized Biography Of Roald Dahl

First Posted: 09/23/10 03:00 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:50 PM ET

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Sturrock's "Storyteller" is so packed with intimate details, sharply intelligent commentary and surprising revelations -- in an early draft of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" the boy hero was black -- that it should be read immediately by anyone interested in Dahl, the ins and outs of modern publishing or the art of biography.

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Sturrock's "Storyteller" is so packed with intimate details, sharply intelligent commentary and surprising revelations -- in an early draft of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" the boy hero was blac...
Sturrock's "Storyteller" is so packed with intimate details, sharply intelligent commentary and surprising revelations -- in an early draft of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" the boy hero was blac...
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Rachael Crawley
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02:22 PM on 09/24/2010
LOVE Roald Dahl. He was one of the few who actually took children seriously. Can't wait to read this book.
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11:02 AM on 09/24/2010
NPR had a really good piece on Roald Dahl and this new biography.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129825567
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04:30 PM on 09/23/2010
Well clearly we can't have a black lead character!
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olddognewtrick
Half full or half empty...It's the same
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04:52 PM on 09/23/2010
Absolutely...It's almost driven Tyler Perry to the poor house...chaueffeur driven..
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