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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers
of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his
books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even
a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain.
His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother
lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked
for an oil company.
In 1939, Roald became a pilot, but he had a
bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的)for the rest of his
life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his
experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.
Roald married an American film star. They
bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, ：Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt.
Oliva, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his
wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.
Gradually Roald became more and more
successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚)at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair
with a wooden board on his lap.
"One of the nice things about being a
writer," he once said, "is that all you need is what you've got in
your head and a pencil and a bit of paper."
In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book
The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox.
After he died in 1990, Roald left money to
help people with serious illness and those with problems with reading and
writing.
