Roald Dahl Roald Dahl was born on September 13, in Llandaff, South Wales. Dahls earliest education was at Llandaff Cathedral School, where his principal beat him harshly for playing a joke. Dahl had hardly excelled as a student in school (biography.com). Dahl wrote his first children’s story in 1943(notablebiographies.com). Dahl died on November 23,1990, in Oxford, England(biography.com). As a child, he spent his summer vacations visiting with his grandparents in Oslo(biography.com) Dahl had suffered from two tragedies, when he was four his oldest sister died from appendicitis, and a few months later his father died from pneumonia,His father’s dying wish was to have his children educated in the English schools. When he was 13, his family
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Though not a good student, his mother nevertheless offered him the option of attending Oxford or Cambridge University when he finished school. His reply, recorded in his book about his childhood called Boy: Tales of Childhood, was, "No, thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China." So after graduating from Repton, Dahl took a position with the Shell Oil Company in Tanganyika, Africa. In 1939 he joined a Royal Air Force training squadron in Nairobi, Kenya, serving as a fighter pilot in the Mediterranean during World War II, Dahl suffered severe head injuries in a plane crash near Alexandria, Egypt. Dahl was soon transferred to Washington, D.C., to be an assistant air attache. There he started his writing career, He had started by publishing a short story in the Saturday Evening Post. His stories soon appeared in many other magazines. Dahl said “becoming a writer was a pure fluke, I doubt if I'd ever have thought of it." in his interview with Willa Petschek in a New York Times Book Review profile. He soon became inspired by his kids to write children’s stories, which began seriously with the publication of James and the Giant Peach in 1961(Notablebiographies.com). Dahl began to publish more and more children’s books but one of his most popular books is Charlie and the Chocolate
Though not a good student, his mother nevertheless offered him the option of attending Oxford or Cambridge University when he finished school. His reply, recorded in his book about his childhood called Boy: Tales of Childhood, was, "No, thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China." So after graduating from Repton, Dahl took a position with the Shell Oil Company in Tanganyika, Africa. In 1939 he joined a Royal Air Force training squadron in Nairobi, Kenya, serving as a fighter pilot in the Mediterranean during World War II, Dahl suffered severe head injuries in a plane crash near Alexandria, Egypt. Dahl was soon transferred to Washington, D.C., to be an assistant air attache. There he started his writing career, He had started by publishing a short story in the Saturday Evening Post. His stories soon appeared in many other magazines. Dahl said “becoming a writer was a pure fluke, I doubt if I'd ever have thought of it." in his interview with Willa Petschek in a New York Times Book Review profile. He soon became inspired by his kids to write children’s stories, which began seriously with the publication of James and the Giant Peach in 1961(Notablebiographies.com). Dahl began to publish more and more children’s books but one of his most popular books is Charlie and the Chocolate