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Joined the air force when he was 23

Crashed in the Western Desert of North Africa. Injured his back, head, and nose.

Spent 6 months in the Anglo-Swiss Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Nationality: British, Welsh

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He won three Edgar Allan Poe awards from the Mystery Writers of America because of his short stories.

Someone like you, The Landlady, Tales of the Unexpected.

He was listed 16th place on The Greatest British writers since 1945 by the Times in 2008.

He got the Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Witches in 1983.

He was honored Children's Author of the Year by the British Book Awards in 19

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Married American actress Patricia Neal on July 2, 1953.
Had five children.
He divorced Patricia in 1983.
He then married Felicity d'Abreu Crosland

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Roald Dahl's first children's book was The Gremlins.

He published it in 1943.

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Road Dahl said that his mother is one of his greatest influences.

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The boy's grandmother in The Witches was Norwegian. The grandmother in the book was based on Dahl's mother.

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"Had I not had children, I would not have written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so."

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In Matilda, Miss Trunchball, the headmaster, came from his time at school.
The character Matilda was influenced by Mozart.

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Many of his books such as The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Witches, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came from his memories of going to a candy shop when he was a child.

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https://www.biography.com/people/roald-dahl-9264648
-https://roalddahlpresentation.weebly.com/influences.html
-https://kidskonnect.com/people/roald-dahl/
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https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/roald-dahl-2676.php

http://www.roalddahl.com/blog/2015/november/roald-dahl-the-fighter-pilot

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Roald Dahl died on November 23, 1990 in the hospital.

He was 74.

Died of an unspecified infection.

Died in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

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Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Born: September 13, 1916

When Dahl was 4 his dad died.

Because Roald Dahl was beat by his teacher for playing a joke, his mom moved him to a boarding school

Chocolate tester for his school.

During World War 2 he joined the Royal Air Force.