IAN FLEMING ,SUSPENCE FICTION NOVELIST BORN 1908 MAY 28 - 1964 AUGUST 12
IAN FLEMING ,SUSPENCE FICTION NOVELIST BORN 1908 MAY 28 - 1964 AUGUST 12 Ian Fleming, in full Ian Lancaster Fleming, (born May 28, 1908, London, England—died August 12, 1964, Canterbury, Kent), 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 grandson of a Scottish banker, Fleming was born into a family of wealth and privilege. He was educated in England, Germany, and Switzerland, and he was a journalist in Moscow (1929–33), a banker and stockbroker (1935–39), a high-ranking officer in British naval intelligence during World War II, and foreign manager of the London Sunday Times (1945–49) before he became a full-time writer. After World War II he spent his winters in Jamaica, where he did much of his writing. Casino Royale (1953) was the first of his 12 James Bond nove...