![]() ![]() During World War II, he was a pilot in North Africa, flying numerous dangerous missions which wiped out 17 of the 20 pilots in his unit. His father died when he was four, and a series of harsh English boarding schools notorious for beatings and pederasty left him with a healthy distrust of authority, all of which is on permanent display in his works for adults and children alike. (The last of these has been filmed numerous times, most recently by Quentin Tarantino as a segment of the movie Four Rooms.)ĭahl was born into a Norwegian family lured to the boomtown of Cardiff in South Wales when it was a capital of coal mining and shipping, around 1911. His best known adult works are "Lamb to the Slaughter," about a woman who clubs her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, then feeds the murder weapon to the investigating officers, and "Man from the South," about a compulsive gambler who wagers his own car against the little finger of unsuspecting strangers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches – all of these came only after he’d already made a name for himself as the writer of morbidly wicked adult fiction in the late forties and fifties. Roald Dahl came to writing the children’s classics for which he is best known relatively late in his life. ![]()
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