Iako je kao RAF-ovac ozlijeđen u II. svjetskom ratu, počeo je pisati o svojim zgodama u Saturday Evening Postu. Prvi njegovi roman bio je „Gremlini“ (1943), napisan za Walta Disneya, te je iz njega nastao uspješan film. Nakon njega uslijedio je roman koji ga je proslavio, "Charlie i tvornica čokolade", ekraniziran dva puta: 1. put Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) i 2. put Charlie i tvornica čokolade. Od romana za odrasle nalazimo „Someone like You“ i „ Kiss, Kiss“. Uz Charlieja i tvornicu čokolade nalazimo i sljedeće romana: „Vještice", Matilda „BFG“, „James and the giant peach“. Od knjiga mu je također ekranizirana „Matilda“(1996.) knjiga o djevojčici koja ima nadnaravne sposobnosti. Napisao je scenarije za „You live only twice“, popularni film o najpoznatijem agentu na svijetu, agentu 007 u službi Njenog veličanstva i film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Poznat je po suradnji sa Engleskim ilustratorom Quentinom Blakeom čije ilustracije krase gotovo sva njegova izdanja. Umro je u Oxfordu
↑ 1,01,1Omnibus editions of the two Charlie books have been published with illustrations by Michael Foreman from 1987 and by Quentin Blake from 2001, both entitled The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka.[1]
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.
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)
↑Source: written for a leafletArhivirano 2009-08-24 na Wayback Machine-u published c.1988 by Sandwell Health Authority (now Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust).
Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39827 Retrieved 24 May 2006
Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN978-1416550822 (See the link to excerpts in "External Links", below.)
Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl: A Biography, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. ISBN978-0374251307