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He was born..
Roald Dahl was born on 13th September, 1916 in Llandaff, South Wales -
shool
From the ages of nine to thirteen he attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Weston–super–Mare, England. When Dahl was thirteen his family moved to Kent in England, and he was sent to Repton Public School. -
Chocolate company
The chocolate company, Cadburys, sent boxes of chocolates to Repton for the students to test. This happy memory gave Dahl the idea for his most famous novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. -
Jobs
He got a job with the Shell Oil Company and two years later was sent to East Africa. In his autobiography, Going Solo, he recounts some of the exciting adventures -
World War
In 1939, World War 11 started. Dahl joined in the RAF and learned to fly warplanes. On his first flight into enemy territory he ran out of fuel and crashed in the Libyan desert and he fractured his skull but managed to crawl out of the burning plane. -
Writings
Dahl started writing in the 1940s while based in the USA and his first story was a newspaper account of his air crash. -
To home.
In 1945 he moved back home but in the early fifties returned to America, where he met his first wife, the actress Patricia Neal.They had five children together but got divorced in 1983 -
last books
The last years of his life were very happy and he wrote some of his best books during this period: The BFG, The Witches and Matilda. Roald Dahl died on 23rd November 1990 in Oxford, England.