ROALD DAHL

WHO IS ROALD DAHL?

• ROALD DAHL WAS A BRITISH NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, POET, SCREENWRITER, AND FIGHTER PILOT.

• HIS BOOKS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 250 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.

WHEN AND WHERE WAS HE BORN?• HE WAS BORN IN

LLANDAFF, WALES ON THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER 1916.

• NAMED AFTER THE FIRST MAN TO REACH THE SOUTH POLE

HIS FAMILY LIFE

• HE MARRIED PATRICIA NEAL, AN AMERICAN ACTRESS, IN 1953 AND THEY HAD 5 CHILDREN TOGETHER.

• AFTER 30 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, THEY ENDED UP GETTING A DIVORCE AND HE LATER WENT ON TO MARRY FELICITY CROSLAND.

WHAT DID HE DO?

• HE WROTE MANY CHILDREN’S BOOKS THAT LATER WERE MADE INTO MOVIES.

• HE FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR 2 IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.

• HE WROTE SCREENPLAYS FOR MOVIES.

OTHER FAMOUS BOOKS

HIS BOOKS THAT WERE MADE INTO MOVIES

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WHO DREW THE PICTURES?• QUENTIN BLACK ILLUSTRATED MANY

OF ROALD DAHL’S BOOKS. • HE WAS BORN IN THE SUBURBS OF

LONDON IN 1932.• HE HAS ALWAYS MADE HIS LIVING

AS AN ILLUSTRATOR AND ALSO TEACHES AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART.

• HIS FIRST DRAWINGS WERE PUBLISHED WHEN HE WAS ONLY 16.

WHEN DID HE DIE?• HE DIED IN OXFORD, UNITED

KINGDOM ON THE 23RD OF NOVEMBER 1990 .

• HE WAS 74.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE STORY BY ROALD DAHL?