Interesting Facts About Roald Dahl

A world without Roald Dahl would be a world without Oompa Loompas, Snozzcumbers, or Muggle-Wumps. And who would ever want to live in a world like that?

Below are interesting facts about the famous children’s author.

• Dahl was a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force during World War II. And it was a plane crash near Alexandria, Egypt that actually inspired him to begin writing.
• Alongside fellow officers Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy, Dahl provided intelligence to an MI6 organization known as the British Security Coordination.
• Roald Dahl wrote many of his books in a shed in his garden, sitting upon an old battered armchair. He wrote everyday from 10 am to 12 noon and then from 4 pm to 6pm. No one else was allowed inside.
• He was friends with the American author, Ernest Hemingway.
• Roald Dahl wrote seventeen children’s stories, and he also produced many works for adults, as well as children’s poetry and film scripts.
• He wrote the screenplays for the movies You Only Live Twice (the James Bond film) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
• He always wrote in pencil on yellow paper.

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