Roald Dahl sisters. Dahl always maintained that his mother and her stories had a strong influence on his writing. In one interview, he mentioned: "She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten." When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he created a grandmother character in "The Witches" and later stated that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute. In 1961, Dahl hosted and wrote for a science fiction and horror television anthology series called "Way Out", which preceded the
Phoebe Dahl LGBT community, women empowerment, women's health care. In 2014, Dahl became engaged to Australian actress Ruby Rose; they split up and called off their engagement in December 2015. In February 2017, Dahl began dating DJ and former model Tatiana de Leon. Phoebe Dahl Phoebe Patricia Faircloth, known as Phoebe Dahl, (born 4 November 1988) is a British-American fashion designer, philanthropist, and activist. She is the granddaughter of British author Roald Dahl and American actress Patricia Neal. Dahl began her career in Amsterdam working as an assistant to Dutch fashion designer Jackie Villevoye before returning to Los Angeles in 2013. Dahl