Ten Interesting Facts About Books / Writers 1. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’. 2. Children’s author Roald Dahl worked as a spy in America during the Second World War. 3. Leo Tolstoy’s book War and Peace is really an epic read, the first published edition consisted of 1,225 pages. Typewriters and printers had not yet been invented when the book was being written […]