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His older sister died from an infection and weeks later his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57.
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Roald Dahl went to St. Peter's Preparatory School in Weston, England.
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When Roald Dahl was thirteen, his family moved to Kent in England and he was sent to Repton Public School.
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He begins working for the Shell Oil Company.
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His first story was a newspaper account of his air crash
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Roald's Gladiator crashes in the Western Desert of North Africa and he receives severe injuries to his head, nose and back.
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In 1945 he moved back home but in early fifties returned to America, where he met his first wife, the actress Patricia Neal.
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Theo, Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal's third child and only son is born.
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He published his first children's book called "James and the Giant Peach"
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They divorced but Roald remarried soon after.
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His last years were very happy and he wrote some of his best books during this period like The BFG, The Witches and Matilda
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Roald Dahl died o n 23rd of November in 1990 in Oxford, England.
