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“If I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead,” Roald Dahl wrote in his (infamous) essay titled History of Chocolate in the Roald Dahl Cookbook. One of the greatest storytellers for children (and adults) of the 20th century, his short …

Born in Llandaff, Wales, on September 13, 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Dahl was named after Roald Amundsen, the adventurer from Norway who, four years earlier, became the first man to reach the South Pole. The family received two setbacks in quick succession – the …