Thaindian News

By Gina Gomez
Aug 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A new memoir that has come to light recently gives revealing insights into life of renowned British writer Roald Dahl. According to the book, the highly-regarded short story writer was quite a ladies man when he worked as a spy during the Second World War and is said to have bedded numerous high society ladies.

The philandering ways of Roald Dahl was divulged in a new autobiography by Donald Sturrock which is being serialized in a leading daily. Antoinette Haskell, a close friend of the noted writer has revealed that Roald Dahl had sexual relationship with anybody across the ‘East and West coasts’ with financial backup of ‘more than $50,000 a year’ while the much-loved writer was also in close association with a number of woman who would tend to his every kind of need. It seems that the celebrated writer had a taste in all kinds of woman as some of the ladies who are known to have been really close to Roald Dahl at some point of time or the other include Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce, socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean, actress Annabella as well as oil heiress Millicent Rogers.

In the meanwhile, the autobiography also includes a heart-breaking account of the tragedy that Roald Dahl faced when his eldest daughter passes away owing to measles encephalitis at the age of seven. The noted writer wrote an account of the final moments in his beloved daughter’s life in a school exercise book that carried her name on the cover. Unknown to his family, the book was hidden in a drawer at the writing hut of the author’s garden in Great Missenden, Buck.