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Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, an expert on Caribbean birds and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies.
Sep 25, 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 ...
Ian Fleming. Learn about the life of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Read more
Learn more about Ian Fleming's life, from his education at Eaton to writing the James Bond adventures that took the world by storm.
Oct 26, 2022 · Ian Fleming, who served tours in Iran and Afghanistan, collapsed during a fitness test he was told to complete or “leave the Navy”.
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 12, 2024 · A new biography, “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” by Nicholas Shakespeare, recounts the storied life of the thriller-writer behind 007.
Inspired by his experiences in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and his passion for travelling the world, Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’.
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, it...
Ian Fleming has 653 books on Goodreads with 718849 ratings. Ian Fleming’s most popular book is Casino Royale (James Bond, #1).
