Roald Dahl Research Paper

The well know writer and successful children’s books author Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on September 13, 1916. Dahl’s parents were norwegian, his father worked as a ship broker and died in Roald’s his early childhood. Many of Dahl’s themes in his books are based on his childhood experiences. Also he had started to get inspiration to write children books from his own kids and from encouragement. Dahl died on November 23, 1990 in Oxford, England from a blood disease.

In Roald’s early childhood he went to a cathedral school called St. Peter’s Preparatory School of Weston Mare where corporal punishment was common. He also became victim to it several times for his mischievousness(“Famous Authors”). Dahl also used his childhood experiences for many of his books. When he was young his older sister had died of appendicitis and then a couple months later his father had died of pneumonia. After his father’s death his family had then moved to England and Dahl started to go to Repton public school. As his father had

While in Washington, Dahl had started his writing career and began writing short stories in local newspapers with the encouragement of one of his friends. Many of Dahl’s book have been inspired from his childhood and experiences he has been in. While he was studying at Repton, the chocolate company ‘Cadbury’ would send boxes of chocolate to there to get tasted. This is where Dahl took inspiration for his most notable work ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ which was published in 1963(“Famous Authors”). During Dahl’s marriage to Patricia Neal many tragedies had struck their family. Some of the tragic events were, such as the terrible accident of his four month old son and death of his seven years old daughter(Famous Authors).Dahl’s kids had influenced his writing, which Dahl later said inspired his children’s