Boy - Tales of Childhood

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Biographies

 

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Laura A

 

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October 14, 2012

 

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University

 

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His career as a salesman for Shell Petroleum in Africa was interrupted by World War II; Dahl joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, saw action, and ended up as a liaison in Washington, D.C. There he met the author C.S. Forester, who encouraged Dahl to write about his war experiences. Most of Dahl's early tales were short stories for adults, often alarmingly macabre and with O...
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There he met the author C.S. Forester, who encouraged Dahl to write about his war experiences. Most of Dahl's early tales were short stories for adults, often alarmingly macabre and with O. Henry-style twists. In the 1960s he began to write children's books; his first, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961...
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