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Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. , and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.
Aug 8, 2024 · Ian Fleming (born May 28, 1908, London, England—died August 12, 1964, Canterbury, Kent) was a suspense-fiction novelist whose character James Bond, the stylish, high-living British secret service agent 007, became one of the most successful and widely imitated heroes of 20th-century popular fiction. The son of a Conservative MP and the ...
The official website for Ian Fleming Publications. We manage the James Bond books, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, & Fleming's non-fiction works.
Learn more about Ian Fleming's life, from his education at Eaton to writing the James Bond adventures that took the world by storm.
Ian Fleming. Writer: Casino Royale. Born into a wealthy and influential English family, Ian Fleming spent his early years attending top British schools such as Eton and Sandhurst military academy.
Apr 4, 2024 · In Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His...
Apr 12, 2024 · A new biography, “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” by Nicholas Shakespeare, recounts the storied life of the thriller-writer behind 007.
Sep 29, 2023 · Nicholas Shakespeare’s Ian Fleming: The Complete Man is a sustained and engrossing homage to the Olympic icon of a beleaguered Britain, and a writer damned to fame. With scarcely a dull page,...
Nov 29, 2023 · Ian Fleming’s Works. Ian Fleming, best known for creating the iconic James Bond character, penned a prolific number of works during his lifetime. Here is a summarized list of his contributions: James Bond Novels: Casino Royale (1953): The debut of James Bond, where he battles the sinister Le Chiffre at the gambling tables.
Oct 26, 2023 · Seven decades after Bond’s birth and almost six since the death of his creator, Nicholas Shakespeare has written a new biography of Ian Fleming.
