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About
English novelist, screenwriter, and fighter pilot who authored Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, and The Witches.
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Before Fame
He was involved in what he called the 'Great Mouse Plot of 1924, in which he and a few other boys put a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers inside "a loathsome" woman's candy store. The conspirators were later caught by the school principal and struck with a cane, and Dahl was sent to boarding school.
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Trivia Fact
His family gave him a Viking funeral, placing chocolates, a power saw, pencils, and his snooker cues in his coffin.
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Family Life:
Following his divorce from Patricia Neal, whom he was married to for 30 years, he married Felicity Crosland in 1983.
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Associated With
Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka in the 2008 film adaptation of Dahl's book, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
