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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.
5 days ago · 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 ...
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Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, [12] while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.
The product of his labour was the first story about British secret agent James Bond, a name which Fleming had borrowed from his ‘Jamaican bible’, A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies, by American ornithologist James Bond.
Ian Fleming’s Early Years. Fleming was born on May 28, 1908 in London of a wealthy banking family. His father Valentine Fleming was a Scottish moneyman who had inherited a fortune from his own father Robert, the chairman of a firm that bore his name.
May 28, 2008 · One hundred years since the birth of James Bond's creator, MI6 looks back at the life and legacy of British author and journalist, Ian Fleming. Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on May 28th 1908 and raised alongside his three other siblings by his mother, Evelyn St. Croix Fleming at the family estate in Oxfordshire.
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The book was Casino Royale and by introducing the world to his hero, James Bond, Fleming created the most enduring icon of the 20th century. His writing style was influenced heavily by his career as a journalist, full of detail that managed to ground the more fantastic elements in reality, even when that detail turned out, on occasion, to be ...
