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A young troublemarker
Roald Dahnl was born September 13 1916, in Llandarf, South Wales. He was a mischievous child and early age he proved himself skilled and finding trouble. -
The birth of a writer
After graduating from Repton, Dahl served as a fighter pilot in the Mediterranean during World War II. After recovering of severe , head injuries in a plane crash, he was sent to Washington, D.C, to be an assistant air attache. There Dalh began his writing career, publishing a short story in the Saturday Evening Post.In 1943 Dhal wrote his first children´s story, The Gremlins. -
Inspired by his children
Dahl had five children with Patricia Neal. As soon as the children were old enough , Dahl began making up stories for them each night before they went to bed.These stories became the basis for his career as achildren´s writer, ehich began seriously with the publication of James and the giant Peach in 1961. -
Controversy
One way that Dahl delighted his reader was to take often vicious revenge on cruel adults who had harmed children, as in Matilda (1988). Mny crirics have objected to the rough treatment of adults.But dah explained that the children who wrote to him always"pick out the most gruesome events as the favourite oarts of the books" -
Why a writer?
Looking back on his years as a writer in Boy: Tales of Childhood, Dahl contended that a person is a fool to become a writer.
Roald Dahl died in Oxford, England, On Novenber, 23, 1990.
