|
- Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on September 13th 1916.
- His parents were Norwegian, and were called Harald & Sophie.
- He went to Repton School, in Derbyshire, and left school in 1933.
- His first job was in Africa, for the Shell Oil Company.
- In the second world war he fought as a fighter pilot, and was badly injured in a plane crash.
- After the war he worked in America, and soon began writing stories.
- His very first children’s book, written in 1943 was called The Gremlins. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D Roosevelt liked it so much she asked him to visit the White House.
- From 1945 until his death, he lived at Gipsy House, in Buckinghamshire, where he wrote his famous Children’s books.
- Roald died in hospital in Oxford, on November 23rd,1990.
|