Roald Dahl - the witches

The worlds No. 1 storyteller Roald Dahl is a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. He found most of his success from writing children’s books. His unique books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. His most well doing books are ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Matilda’ and ‘James and the Giant Peach’.  A lot of Roald Dahls books were turned into played and performed at the Westend which is a huge deal. Mr Dahl died at 74 joining his first daughter Olivia who sadly does at age 7 due to encephalitis caused by measles, ‘James and the Giant Peach’ and ‘The BFG’ were dedicated to her. His older sister Astri, also died at age seven after an infection caused by burst appendix and just weeks later their father died from pneumonia. Roald Dahl has a lot of tragedy in his life. Roald Dahl used to make up bedtime stories for his children which he turned into published books. In. Fact, he didn’t publish his Matilda till 1989 when his fourth grandchild was born. Roald Dahl had been married twice. He was married to Patricia Neal the American actress from 1953-1983 and had all five of his children with her. Then after he divorced with Patricia he married the British film producer, Felicity d’Abreu Crosland from 1983-1990 when he passed away. When  the writing sensation died, he left behind 500 worlds that he created. One of them being the commonly used word ‘scrumdiddlyumptious’ which means something is extremely delicious.