Roald Dahl
By Pat Deely
Early life
Roald Dahl was born to Norwegian parents on september 13th, 1916. He spent most of her early life in Landaff. His dad and sister died when she was very young. Roald started school that same year at the local Llandaff Cathedral School then went to St. Peters, weston-SuperMare.
Early Jobs
Earrly on after school Roald started working for shell oil, he got moved to Dar-es-Salaam to work. He ends up joining the Royal AIr Force (RAF) fro world war two. He was posted in Libya where he was involved in a plane crash and was sent to america.
First Writing and Love Life
He completed first ever paid writing in August 1942, and published his first ever short story in 1946. He married his wife Patricia Neal on July 2nd, 1953 in New York. Has his first daughter Olivia in 1955 and second one in 1957. Some of his short stories start to appear on Alfred Hitcholck presents.
Website: roaldalh.com
Books/short stories written
- The Gremlins (1943)
- James and the Giant Peach (1961)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- The Magic Finger (1966)
- Fantastic Mr Fox (1970)
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
- Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
- The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
- The Twits (1980)
- George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
- The BFG (1982)
- The Witches (1983)
- The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
- Matilda (1988)
- Esio Trot (1990)
- The Minpins (1991)
- The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
Children's poetry
- Revolting Rhymes (1982)
- Dirty Beasts (1983)
- Rhyme Stew (1989)
Adult novels
- Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
- My Uncle Oswald (1979)
Adult short story
collections
- Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
- Someone Like You (1953)
- Kiss Kiss (1960)
- Switch Bitch (1974)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
- The Best of Roald Dahl (1978)
- Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
- More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
- The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986)
- Two Fables (1986)
- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989)
- The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991)
- The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1998)
- Skin and Other Stories (2000)
- Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)
Non-fiction
- The Mildenhall Treasure (1946)
- Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
- Going Solo (1986)
- Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
- Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
- My Year (1993)
Later Life
The 60's saw some of his most famous writings but one of the hardest time periods for him. He published James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His son and daughter ophelia are born. His daughter Olivia dies, Patricia has 2 stokes in LA and Roald's mother died. The fantastic Mr. Fox was released, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory becomes a movie and The Great Glass Elivator is released.
Death
Roald Dahl died on november 23rd 1990 at 74. A charity was named after him soon after.