AUTHOR PROFILE: Roald Dahl

Hello and welcome back to a new post. In this one I am going to do an author profile on Roald Dahl, the author of lots of famous books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Witches and Esio Trot. Unfortunately he is dead now, but hopefully from this post you will get to know some new information about Roald Dahl!

Name: Roald Dahl

Born: 13 September 1916

Died: 23 November 1990

Books: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, Esio Trot, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox (many more)

Height: 1.98m

Spouse: Patricia Neal (1953-1983), Felicity Ann d'Abreu Crosland (1983-1990)

Nationality: British (born in Wales)

Education: Repton School

Jobs: Novelist, poet, screenwriter

Children: Theo Dahl, Tessa Dahl, Lucy Dahl, Ophelia Dahl, Olivia Dahl

Awards: Edgar Award for Best Short Story, Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay, World Fantasy Award - Life Achievement, CableACE Award for International Children's Programming Special or Series

Fun fact: Roald Dahl's first children's books was called The Gremlins. 

So that was my author profile on Roald Dahl! I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you soon on my blog! 📚😉

Roald Dahl and dogs (awwww)