Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 to November 23, 1990) was a British author who penned 19 children's books over his decades-long writing career. In 1953 he published the best-selling story collection Someone Like You and married actress Patricia Neal. He published the popular book James and the Giant Peach in 1961. In 1964 he released another highly successful work, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was later adapted for two films.
Over his decades-long writing career, Dahl composed 19 children’s books.
Dahl wrote many of his stories in a little shed at the bottom of his garden
Known as his ‘writing hut’, Dahl sat in a battered old armchair and penned famous tales such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
He was a fighter pilot in World War II.
During a flight in a Gloster Gladiator (fighter plane) in 1940 over Libya, Dahl crash landed in the desert and survived – all because he’d been given the wrong directions!
Dahl wrote for around four hours every single day
From 10am – 12pm, and then 4pm – 6pm
He never learned how to type
Instead, Dahl preferred to do all his writing in an old red book in pencil.
When Roald Dahl died in 1990, he was buried with some of his favourite things
Including a power drill, chocolate, snooker cues and of course, his HB pencils.
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