Roald Dahl

Picture of Roald Dahl (Google)

My hero is Roald Dahl because he did not only write books for children or adults, he also helped kids with rare blood diseases and kids with leukemia. Roald Dahl did this because he to had a rare blood disease called Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Roald Dahl had died at the age of 74 in 1990. Before he had died he started the Roald Dahl Foundation and it is still going on today.

Roald Dahl's book Matilda (Google)

Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. He had lived in Norway until a year after his father Harold Dahl died, which was when Roald Dahl was only seven-years-old. Then he moved back to Wales and attended British schools until he turned seventeen. Roald Dahl wrote a book Boy which was about his childhood memories. His childhood memories show up in other stories like The Great Mouse Plot where Roald Dahl and his friends put a dead rat in a gobstopper jar, and The Wizzing Boy was about a boy riding down a hill with no hands on the handle bar of his bike. Roald Dahl had 3 sister Astri, Alfhild, and Else. In 1920, Roald's sister Astri had died from appendicitis when she was only seven year old.

In November 1939, Roald Dahl joined the Royal Air Force to start flight training for World War II. Six months later he had become a Pilot Officer at the Royal Air Force. On September 19, 1940 Roald Dahl was ordered to fly from Egypt to Amirya to Libya, but in Anirya Roald Dahl had crashed right into a huge boulder. Thankfully, Roald Dahl recovered from this accident in a nearby hospital. In 1942, Roald Dahl began writing. He wrote The Saturday Evening Post which was describing the the crash he was in with his airplane, which he named the Gloster Gladiator. Before Roald Dahl's adventure in World War II, Roald Dahl had worked for Shell Petroleum Company in 1934.

Roald Dahl and Patricia Neals (Google)

In 1951, Roald Dahl meet a American Actress named Patricia Neals at a dinner party. Two years later in 1953, Roald Dahl and Patricia Neals got married on July 2nd at the Trinity Church in New York. Roald Dahl's first child was Olivia Tweenty born on April 20, 1955. At age 7, Olivia Tweenty got the measles and died on November 7, 1962. After Olivia's death Rolad Dahl wrote a book called The BFG, which was dedicated to her. Roald Dahl's son Theo was in a tragic accident after falling out of a taxi and hitting his head on the pavement. Roald Dahl and Patricia Neals had 5 children all-together. Their marriage lasted 30 years. In 1983, Roald Dahl and Patricia Neals had gotten a divorce.

Roald Dahl (Drawing)

From 1943-1990, Roald Dahl has been writing from children books to adult books, but Roald Dahl gets most of his ideas from either old or new memories. Here are lots of children books Roald Dahl has written: The Gremlins, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , The Magic Finger , Fantastic Mr.Fox , Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator , Danny, the Champion of the World , The Enormous Crocodile , The Twits ,George's Marvellous Medicine , The BFG , The Witches , The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me , Matilda , Esio Trot , The Vicar of Nibbleswick , and The Minpins . Roald Dahl is very inspirational and talented in his work. His books can be funny, enjoyable, and page turners. That's not the only reason why Roald Dahl is a hero. Roald Dahl is my hero because he also helped kids with brain disorders.