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Roald Dahl

By hcallau

  • BORN

    BORN
    Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales, United Kingdom, to Norwegian parents.

  • Childhood

    Childhood
    his father died when Dahl was four. The mother of Roald sent him to English Schools.
    Dahl would later describe his school years as "days of horrors" filled with "rules, rules and still more rules that had to be obeyed," which inspired much of his gruesome fiction.

  • Roald Dahl in the squadron

    Roald Dahl in the squadron
    He joined a Royal Air Force training squadron in Nairobi, Kenya serving as a fighter pilot in the Mediterranean during World War II

  • MARRIED

    MARRIED
    Dahl married Hollywood actress Patricia Neal, star of such movies as The Fountainhead

  • Stage play

    Stage play
    In 1955 Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia is born and his only stage play, The Honeys, opens.
    The Honeys was Roald Dahl's first and only stage play. A comedic version of three stories from the collection Someone Like You

  • His daughter born

    His daughter born
    Olivia was "named after her mother's favourite Shakespearean heroine, the date of her birth, and the fact that Roald had $20 in his pocket when he came to visit Pat in hospital."

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published in September,The book is dedicated to Roald Dahl's son Theo.

  • Switch B***h

    Switch B***h
    In 1974 Roald Dahl's fourth adult short story collection Switch B***h,

  • Publication of The Enormous Crocodile

    Publication of The Enormous Crocodile
    Publication of The Enormous Crocodile; partnership with Quentin Blake

  • Roald Dahl died

    Roald Dahl died
    Roald Dahl dies, aged 74 in september of 23th . He is buried in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Missenden.