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Title: Real Roald Dahl, The
Author: COHEN NADIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/02/2019
Imprint: PEN & SWORD
Price: $53.00
Publishing status: Active
Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children,
there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye. His fascinating life began
in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who delighted in defying
authority before joining the RAF as a fighter pilot. But after his plane crashed in the African
desert he was left with agonising injuries and unable to fly. He was dispatched to New York
where, as a dashing young air attache, he enraptured societies greatest beauties and became
friends with President Roosevelt. Roald soon found himself entangled with a highly complex
network of British undercover operations. Eventually he grew tired of the secrecy of spying and
retreated to the English countryside. He married twice and had five children, but his life was also
affected by serious illness, tragedy and loss. He wrote a number of stories for adults, many of
which were televised as the hugely popular Tales of the Unexpected, but it was as a children’s
author that he found greatest fame and satisfaction, saying “I have a passion for teaching kids to
become readers…Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.”
From 1945 until his death in 1990, he lived in Buckinghamshire, where he wrote his most
celebrated children’s books including Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr
Fox.
16 b/w images
ISBN: 9781526722072
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm