Roald Dahl

The amazing magical man!

By: Ann Schuck
 Early Years
• Roald Dahl was born in
Llandaff Wales in 1961
• His parents were Sofie
and Harald
• When he was young he
absolutely loved to
read!
 Inspiration
 Dahl loved his parents
and based a lot of his
characters on his family
and friends
 Mr. Dahl was inspired by
his parents, a diary
writer (dad) and
storyteller (mom).
School

 From ages 7-9, Roald Dahl

went to Llandaff Cathedral
School
 After school Dahl always
stopped by the sweet shop
 His favorite candies were
Sherbert Suckers
 Dahl went to boarding
school at St. Peter’s Prep
from 1925-1929
 His Latin Master Captain
Hardcastle was the model
for Miss Trunchball in
Matilda
 After School
At 18 Dahl joined the Public
Schools Societies expedition to
Newfoundland
When Dahl finished school he
started to work as a salesman for
Dares Salaam
When he was 23 he joined the war
as a pilot officer for the Royal Air
Force in Nairobi, Kenya
He wrote about his journeys in his
auto-biography Going Solo
 Boy
Have you ever read
Boy?
Boy was based on
Roald Dahl’s
childhood.
It contains incredible
stories of Dahl’s
chidhood
 Love and Children
» Roald Dahl was
married twice
» Once to Patricia
Neal in 1953
» They had 5
children
» Olivia (who died
at 7)
» Theo
» Tessa
» Ophelia
» And Lucy
2nd Marriage
• Roald’s second wife
was Felicity Crosland
• They got married in
1983
• They had no children
 When He Started Writing
Dahl’s first kids book was The Gremlins
in 1943
It was a picture book
Dahl’s real (children's) career didn’t
start until the 60’s after he had become
a father
Dahl quotes “If I had not had children
of my own, I would not have been
encouraged to write any children's
books”
 Ernest Hemingway
 During Dahl’s first 15
years as a writer he only
wrote for adults
 He also took advice from
author Ernest Hemingway
(right) ”Never use a colon
or a semi-colon” also
“When it starts going
well, quit”.
 Both refused to write
unless they had a really
good idea
Some More Stories
 Dahl’s first “story” A
Piece of Cake was
published in the Saturday
Evening Post in 1941
 Dahl wrote 16 more
articles for the Post
 The more Dahl wrote,
the more fictional his
stories became
 All the Post stories were
published in Over To You
Some More Stuff On Dahl
 Dahl had articles
published in
magazines including
the New Yorker and
Atlantic Monthly
 He also wrote 2
adult novels, My
Uncle Oswald and
Some time Never
 Dahl also won an
Edger Award for
Most Mysterious
Author 3 times
 Wow!
Brian Appleyard claims Dahl is indeed
no doubt “The Most Successful
children’s writer in the world”
What do you think?
Did You Know?
Dahl invented James and the Giant
Peach as a nighttime story for his
daughters Olivia and Tessa
Later in 1961 it was published
 Charlie and the Chocolate
Factoy
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
was published in
1964
The Chinese
addition was the
biggest print of
any book in the
whole entire
world
 Famous Children’s Books
 James and the Giant Peach
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
 The BFG
 Danny, the Champion of the World
 The Twits
 The Witches
 Boy
 Going Solo
 Matilda
 The Magic Finger
 Fantastic Mr. Fox
 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
 The Enormous Crocodile
 George’s Marvelous Medicine
 The Giraffe and Pelly and Me
 Esio Trot
 The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
 The Min Pins
 Tragic Events
More then most people 
Olivia Daughter Inflammation of the
brain (died) 
Theo Son Brain Damage (recovered)

Patricia 1st Wife 3 stokes while pregnant
(recovered) 
Lorina Step daughter Brain tumor (died)

Roald Him (died) 
 Death

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In 1990 Roald Dahl was diagnosed with rare
blood disorder known as: Myelodysplastic
anaemia
On November 23rd 1990 Roald Dahl died. He was
74
He was working until the end putting the
finishing touches on The Vicar of Nibbleswicke,
My Year, and The Roald Dahl Cook Book.
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