Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl

• by Teddy McGovern, Jennie Racca, and Maggie
  Gladden

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Birth info.

• born September 13,1916
• Born in llandaff, Whales

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Parents

• Mother Sophie Magdalene Hessleburg Dahl
• Father Harold Dahl, who was a shipbroker,
  painter, and Horticulturist

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Siblings

• 3 sisters Alfhid, Else, and Asta
• 2 stepsisters
• When Roald was four years old his stepsister,
  Astri, died of appendicitis.

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Spouses

• Patricia Neal (divorced) actress
• Felicity Ann Crosland (married to until death)
  fashion coordinator

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Childrens Names

• 5 children
• Olivia (deceased)
• Tessa
• Theo
• Ophelia
• Lucy

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Education

• Llandaff Cathedral School
• St. Peters School
• Repton Public School (graduated)

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Miscellaneous Occupations

• Shell Oil Co. (London)
• Royal Air Force (fighter pilot and promoted to
  wing commander)
• Author (obviously)

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Most Popular Books

• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
• James And The Giant Peach
• Danny The Champion of the world
• Matilda
• The B.F.G

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Awards 1954-1972

• 1954     Wins Edgar Allen Poe award and Mystery
  Writers of America award.
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• 1959     Wins second Edgar Allan Poe Award and
  second Mystery Writers of America Award
• 1972     Wins New England Round Table of
  Children's Librarians Award

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Awards From 1973-1978

• 1973     Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie
  and the Chocolate Factory).
• 1975     Wins Surrey School award (for Charlie
  and the Great Glass Elevator).
• 1978     Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the
  Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award
  (for Danny the Champion of the World

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Awards1979-1982

• 1979     Wins California Young Reader Medal (for
  Danny the Champion of the World).
• 1980     Wins third Mystery Writers of America
  award.
• 1982     Wins Federation of Children's Book
  Groups Award (for The BFG) and Massachusetts
  Children's Award (for James and the Giant Peach).

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Awards From 1983-1985

• 1983     Wins New York Times Outstanding Books
  Award, Federation of Children's Book Groups
  Award, and Whitbread Award (all for The Witches).
  Also wins World Fantasy Convention Lifetime
  Achievement Award.
• 1984     Wins Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis (for
  The BFG).
• 1985     Wins Kurt Maschler award runnerup (for
  The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me) and Boston
  Globe/Horn Book nonfiction honor citation (for
  Boy Tales of Childhood).

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Awards from1986-1990

• 1986     Wins West Australian Award (for The
  Witches) and International Board on Books for
  Young People awards for Norwegian and German
  translations (for The BFG).
• 1988     Wins Federation of Children's Book
  Groups Award (for Matilda).
• 1990     Wins Smarties Award (for Esio Trot).

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Awards 1997-2000

• 1997     Wins Good Book Guide "Best Books of the
  Past 20 Years" (for The BFG).
• 1998     Matilda voted "Nation's Favorite
  Children's Book" in BBC Bookworm Poll.
• 2000     Wins Millennium Children's Book Award
  and Blue Peter Book Award (for Charlie and the
  Chocolate Factory).

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Books Turned Into Movies

• Matilda
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
• James And The Giant Peach

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Childrens books

• Danny The Champion of the World, illustrated by
  Jill Bennett, Knopf, 1975.
• The Enormous Crocodile, illustrated by Quentin
  Blake, Knopf, 1976, Puffin, 1993.
• The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy
  Wonka (contains Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator),
  illustrated by Jaques, Allen Unwin, 1978.

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Children Books

• The Twits, illustrated by Blake, J. Cape, 1981,
  Knopf, 1982.
• George's Marvelous Medicine, illustrated by
  Blake, J. Cape, 1981, Knopf, 1982.
• The Gremlins, illustrated by Walt Disney
  Productions, Random House, 1943.
• James and the Giant Peach A Children's Story,
  illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Knopf, 1961,
  illustrated by Michel Simeon, Allen Unwin,
  1967, Cornerstone Books, 1991.

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Children Books

• The Magic Finger, illustrated by William Pene du
  Bois, Harper and Row, 1966, illustrated by Tony
  Ross, Puffin, Fantastic Mr. Fox, illustrated by
  Donald Chaffin, Knopf, 1970. 1966, illustrated by
  Pat Marriot, Puffin, 1974.
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator The Further
  Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka,
  Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary, illustrated by
  Schindelman, Knopf, 1972, illustrated by Jaques,
  Allen Unwin, 1973.

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Children Books

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, illustrated by
  Joseph Schindelman, Knopf, 1964, illustrated by
  Faith Jaques, Allen Unwin, 1967, Cornerstone
  Books, 1989.

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Childrens books

• Esio Trot, illustrated by Blake, Viking, 1990,
  Puffin, 1992.
• The Dahl Diary, 1992, illustrated by Blake,
  Puffin, 1991.
• The Vicar of Nibbleswicke, illustrated by Blake,
  Viking, 1992.

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Children Books

• The Minpins, illustrated by Patrick Benson,
  Puffin, 1994.
• My Year, illustrated by Blake, Viking, 1994.
• Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes, illustrated by
  Blake, Viking, 1994.

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Children Books

• Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, illustrated by
  Blake, J. Cape, 1982, Knopf, 1983, Puffin, 1995.
• The BFG, illustrated by Blake, Farrar, Straus,
  1982, Viking Penguin, 1985.
• Dirty Beasts (verse), illustrated by Rosemary
  Fawcett, Farrar, Straus, 1983, Puffin, 1986.

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Children Books

• Matilda, illustrated by Blake, Viking Kestrel,
  1988, Knopf, 1988, Puffin, 1990.
• Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG
  (boxed set), Viking, 1989.
• Rhyme Stew (comic verse), illustrated by Blake,
  Viking Kestrel, 1989, Viking, 1990.

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Children Books.

• The Witches, illustrated by Blake, Farrar,
  Straus, 1983, Puffin, 1985.
• Boy Tales of Childhood (autobiography), Farrar,
  Straus, 1984.
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, illustrated by
  Blake, J. Cape, 1985, Puffin, 1994.

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Adult books

• Sometime Never A Fable for Supermen (novel),
  Scribner, 1948.
• My Uncle Oswald (novel), M. Joseph, 1979, Knopf,
  1980.
• Going Solo (autobiography), Farrar, Straus, 1986.

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Short Stories

• Over to You Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying,
  Reynal, 1946.
• Someone Like You, Knopf, 1953.
• Kiss, Kiss, Knopf, 1953.
• Selected Stories of Roald Dahl, Modern Library,
  1968.
• Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (contains
  Someone Like You and Kiss, Kiss), M. Joseph,
  1969.

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Short Stories

• Switch Bitch, Knopf, 1974.
• The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More,
  J. Cape, 1977.
• The Best of Roald Dahl (includes selections from
  Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss, Kiss, and
  Switch Bitch), introduction by James Cameron,
  Random House, 1978.
• Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, Vintage,
  1979.

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More short stories

• "Taste" and Other Tales, Longman, 1979.
• A Roald Dahl Selection Nine Short Stories,
  edited and introduced by Roy Blatchford,
  photographs by Catherine Shakespeare Lane,
  Longman, 1980.
• More Tales of the Unexpected, Penguin, 1980,
  published in England as More Roald Dahl's Tales
  of the Unexpected, M. Joseph, 1980, and as
  Further Tales of the Unexpected, Chivers, 1981.
• Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, Farrar,
  Straus, 1983.
• Two Fables ("Princess and the Poacher" and
  "Princess Mammalia"), illustrated by Graham Dean,
  Viking, 1986, Farrar, Straus, 1987.

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Short Stories

• The Roald Dahl Omnibus, Hippocrene Books, 1987.
• A Second Roald Dahl Selection Eight Short
  Stories, edited by Helene Fawcett, Longman, 1987.
  
• Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, illustrated by John
  Lawrence, J. Cape, 1988, Knopf, 1989, Penguin,
  1990.
• The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (an
  omnibus volume containing Kiss, Kiss, Over to
  You, Switch Bitch, Someone Like You, and Eight
  Further Tales of the Unexpected), Penguin, 1991.
• The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl,
  Penguin, 1992

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Screenplays

• "Lamb to the Slaughter" (teleplay), Alfred
  Hitchcock Presents, Columbia Broadcasting System
  (CBS), 1958.
• (With Jack Bloom) You Only Live Twice, United
  Artists (UA), 1967.
• (With Ken Hughes) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, UA,
  1968.

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Screen Plays

• The Night Digger (based on Nest in a Falling
  Tree, by Joy Crowley), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970.
  
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (motion
  picture adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate
  Factory), Paramount, 1971.
• Also author of screenplays Oh Death, Where Is Thy
  Sting- a-Ling-a-Ling, United Artists The
  Lightening Bug, 1971 and The Road Builder.