Roald Dahl was a British writer who won worldwide popularity with humorous, sharp-edged children’s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Witches.
During World War II he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Drawing on that experience, in 1943 he published his first book, The Gremlins, about the little creatures pilots said tampered with machines, spreading the name gremlin around the world.
