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Author Facts: Roald Dahl<\/b><\/p>\n
As one of the world\u2019s best loved children\u2019s authors, the last thing you\u2019d expect of Roald Dahl is that he\u2019d be a real life James Bond. During World War II, Dahl got a taste of the bad guys, an action-packed lifestyle and a fair share of his very own dashing Dahl girls as a British undercover spy.<\/p>\n
A dab hand in the RAF, Dahl took down German pilots single handedly. According to letters he kept during his time as wing commander, after a long day\u2019s work, his sexual conquests ranged from the heiress of a Standard Oil fortune to a glamorous congresswoman, with countless other women falling at his feet.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n As if that wasn\u2019t enough of a Bond lifestyle for you, after a victorious career in the RAF, Dahl was sent to America to persuade the wealthy and influential that their country was needed in the war effort, and it turns out he was rather successful in the sheets there, too. Queue another string of willing women\u2013even, as he told fellow philanderer President Roosevelt\u2013the Crown Princess of Norway.\u00a0So next time you think of Dahl as the jolly old author of\u00a0Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/i>\u00a0and the ever-so lovely\u00a0BFG<\/i>, just remember that when he was alive, he could quite as easily kill you\u2013or your marriage\u2013as he could write a successful children\u2019s book.<\/p>\n From flying Brits to flying monkeys, L. Frank Baum, the author of the\u00a0Wizard of Oz<\/i>, took a serious detour before making it onto the yellow brick road. Fifteen or so years before the\u00a0Wizard of Oz<\/i>\u00a0was released, Baum had turned his hand to a dramatically different kind of book; specifically, one about chickens.It turns out that Baum was quite a chicken aficionado and his first book,\u00a0The Book of Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs<\/i>, which really did have that lengthy title, was all about looking after his feathered friends.<\/p>\n Now selling for more than $100 on rare book collection sites (and Amazon), Baum\u2019s fowl non-fiction focused on what was an incredibly valuable breed of chicken. So strong was his love for the farm fowl that he ran a regular trade journal about chickens for months before he released his book. His love for the breed didn\u2019t stop there. In the sequel to the\u00a0Wizard of Oz<\/i>, Baum brought in Billina; a sharp beaked, talkative yellow hen that replaced the beloved Toto. What a shame that his true passion never saw the same fame as his band of merry misfits.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAuthor Facts: L. Frank Baum<\/h2>\n
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