Roald Dahl Biography

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a famous Norwegian-British children book writer. He was born in Cardiff, Wales the 13th of September 1916. He served in the Royal Air Force during WW2 becoming a wing commander. In 1960 he started his writing career at the Gypsy House in Great Missenden. His most famous work is probably Charlie and the chocolate factory. At the age of 74 he passed away in 1990. He was buried in his hometown Cardiff.
Roald Dahl`s childhood
Roald Dahl was born Villa Mare in Cardiff Wales the 13.september 1916. His parents were Norwegian (Harrald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene). He got his forename after the explorer Roald Amundsen. Throughout the childhood and some adolescence, Roald spend his summer time at Tjøme in Norway from he were 4

About one mount later, his father died 57 years old. His mother nevertheless chose them to be in Brittan rather than head back to Norway. Roald Dahl’s father wanted him to get a British education, because he believed that the school system was the world`s best. Roald begun first on Llandgriff Cathedral School.
One day Roald was eight years, he and four other comrades punished off the teachers caning. Just because they had let a dead rat on the school. Because his action was bad, he was sent to boarding schools. After a moment, he got homesick, and then it was the start of that Roald started writing letters.
Roald was 1.98 centimeters tall when he was fully developed. He was good at sport and was captain of the squash team (a sport), and played on the soccer team. Besides the sport there, he became interested in photography. When Roald begun to the school there, it happened that a chocolate company called Cadbury Stundom sometimes gave the students on the school boxes off chocolate. It was that way he got the idea for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That was his 3 bock. The End.

Personal

Roald Dahl donated a lot to charity and has still a charity fund going today, called Roald Dahl foundation.
Roald Dahl’s career
Dahl started writing in 1942, after he had been transferred to the British Embassy in Washington, USA. His first published work appeared in Saturday Evening Post in 1st August 1942 under the title "Shot down over Libya," which described his crash-landing.
Dahl started writing about his experiences during the war. They were collected in “Over to You” in 1946.
After the war came the stories that would create Dahl's first fame. They were published in American prestige magazines, and a few pieces a year was enough that he could live well. Most of them were collected in books Someone like You and Kiss, Kiss. Overall, he wrote 73 novels, published over a period of nearly 50 years.
In 1983 ended his marriage to Patricia Neal after many years, and Dahl married Felicity Crosland. It would appear that the new marriage brought more harmony into existence, and he wrote some of his best children's books in the years that followed, including Witches and