A spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and a medical inventor. Find out more about his life Roald Dahl Website
He was born in Cardiff on 13th September 1916 Click here to know more of his city. He was a student at Repton School. Near Repton was a Cadbury chocolate factoy. Cadbury sent new chocolates for the students to taste and grade. Does it sound familiar to Charly and The Chocolate Factory? 
In 1939, Dahl joined the Royal Air Force. And he became a World War II fighter pilot. While serving in the Mediterranean, Dahl's plane crashed. He survived but had serious injuries to his skull, spine and hip.
Dahl wrote his first story for children, The Gremlins, in 1942, for Walt Disney. The story wasn't terribly successful, and Dahl began writing macabre and mysterious stories for
adult readers.
Dahl also adapted a book for a James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. Roald Dahl was a close friend of Ian Flemming, the author of the James Bond books? And both of them were spies during II Wold War!
Roald Dahl died in Oxford, England on November 23, 1990, at the age of 74.
Dahl wrote 19 children’s books and nine short story collections. He also wrote several television and movie scripts.
5th level enjoyed and worked on one of his short stories, from Tales of the Unexpected, Lamb to the Slaughter.