Throughout the 20th century, there have been many wonderful authors. But there is one author that has written many great books that lots of people still read today. His name is Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl is a famous children’s book author. He has written many fantastic children’s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. I believe that Roald Dahl is one of the best children’s book authors because he has lots of creativity and inspiration for his stories.
Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales. His parents were Norwegian. His father had immigrated from Norway to England. He took a trip back to Norway in hopes of finding a new wife to help him raise his son and
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One of Roald’s hobbies was reading. Some of his favorite authors were Rudyard Kipling, Captain Marryat, H. Rider Haggarrd, and G.A. Henty. He loved the emphasized feelings of masculinity and heroism in their books that would influence his writings and his life.
When Roald was thirteen, his family moved back to Kent, England. Roald then attended the famous Repton Public School while his sisters attended Roedean in Sussex. Roald thought that Repton was worse than St. Peter’s. “His account of it in Boy includes fagging (younger boys, ‘fags’, were basically personal slaves to the older prefects, called ‘boazers’), beatings, the torture of new boys, and other miseries common to many, although not all, boys’ boarding schools of the time.” (Howard) In Boy, Roald describes harsh beatings from the former headmaster, Geoffrey Fisher, who had eventually become the Archbishop of Canterbury. “According to Dahl, the vicious beatings that this man would deliver, combined with the fact that twenty years later he crowned Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, made Dahl doubt the existence of God.” (Howard) However, in Jeremy Treglown’s biography about Roald, he discovered that Roald had gotten his dates mixed up. The beatings he was referring to happened in 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton. Mr. Treglown believed that it was Fisher’s successor, J. T. Christie.
Luckily, not all of
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