Roald Dahl
Roald's life story
Who was Roald Dahl?
Early life
Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff England. He had five siblings and lived with his parents. A few years after he was born, they moved to Radyr, Wales. He began his schooling in Radyr at the Weston-Super-Mare. Ronald was a very troublesome kid who played pranks and made bad decisions. This caused him to be expelled from school and sent to several boarding schools in England. He later wrote a book about this particular experience. It was called Matilda. Although Roald never excelled in school, his mother enrolled him into a college in Cambridge, Roald refused to go. Instead, he went to a worse college called Repton. After his education, he got his first job at Shell Oil. In 1948, he published his first book, Gremlins. This was the start of his writing career. In 1950 he met his future spouse, Patricia Neal. Three years later they got married and had five kids together. Before Roald Dahl became an author, he joined the Air Force. He only had the job for a couple years, until he crashed his biplane in Lybia and almost died. he then quit the Air Force and became an author.