During the last year of his life he compiled a book of anecdotes and recipes with his wife, Felicity, which was published by Penguin in 1996 as Roald Dahl's Cookbook He is one of the most successful and well known of all children's writers all over the world. Among his other publications are two volumes of autobiography, Boy and Going Solo, his much-praised novel, My Uncle Oswald, and Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, of which he was editor. Anglia Television dramatized a selection of his short stories under the title Tales of the Unexpected. All of his highly acclaimed stories have been widely translated and have become bestsellers all over the world. His first twelve short stories, based on his wartime experiences, were originally published in leading American magazines and afterwards as a book, Over to You.
In 1942 he went to Washington as Assistant Air Attaché, which was where he started to write, and then was transferred to Intelligence, ending the war as a wing commander. He was severely wounded after joining a fighter squadron in Lybia, but later saw service as a fighter pilot in Greece and Syria. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the RAF at Nairobi.
Roald Dahl's parents were Norwegian, but he was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, in 1916 and educated at Rapton School.
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