If the TV show “Jeopardy!” presented the clue, “author who wrote about a giant peach and a chocolate factory,” just about everybody could come up with, “Who is Roald Dahl?” The English writer of offbeat children’s books is known worldwide. In 2007, some ten million copies of his books were sold in a multitude of languages. But few know that this popular author had another, secret life in espionage during World War II.
Now a Sag Harbor author with a penchant for turning up little known facts, Jennet Conant, has unearthed Mr. Dahl’s double life and details it in her new book, “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington.”
Interviewed recently in the media room at her home in Sag Harbor, Ms. Conant recalled how she got... more
Now a Sag Harbor author with a penchant for turning up little known facts, Jennet Conant, has unearthed Mr. Dahl’s double life and details it in her new book, “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington.”
Interviewed recently in the media room at her home in Sag Harbor, Ms. Conant recalled how she got... more
