Roald Dahl

Anti-semite, Air Force veteran, Dahl wrote smut stories for Playboy. No, this wasn't the highbrow lit about philandering husbands that Johns Updike and Cheever wrote, Roald Dahl wrote real sex stories. And also Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. While spending the first chunk of his life living like James Bond. Then, you know, The BFG. Like we said, multitudes.

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