IAN FLEMING ,NOVELIST AND PRODUCERS JAMESBOND MOVIES BORN 1908 MAY 28- 1964 AUGUST 12
IAN FLEMING ,NOVELIST AND PRODUCERS OF JAMESBOND MOVIES 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 hi...