Roald Dahl

British · b. 1916

Roald Dahl was a wartime RAF fighter pilot turned children's author whose gleefully wicked, subversive stories, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, made him one of the best-selling children's writers of all time. His signature blend of the grotesque, the funny, and the just, illustrated by Quentin Blake, has sold hundreds of millions of copies.