is roald dahl still alive
Roald Dahl, Writer, 74, Is Dead; Best Sellers Enchanted Children. Roald Dahl, the best-selling British writer of macabre children's stories as well as books for adults and films, died Friday at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. He was 74 years old and lived in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, between Oxford and London.