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  Ian Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian Fleming was born in Mayfair, London, to Valentine Fleming, a Member of British Parliament, and his wife Evelyn St. Croix Fleming (née Rose).
Ian was the younger brother of the travel writer Peter Fleming and the older brother of Michael and Richard Fleming.
Fleming was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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 Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964) was a British author, best remembered for the James Bond series of novels.
Born in Mayfair, London, Ian Fleming was the younger brother of the travel writer, Peter Fleming.
Ian Fleming is interred in the Church yard cemetery at the village of Sevenhampton[?], near Swindon, next to his wife Anne and son, Casper.
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 Ian Fleming Publications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose.
After Fleming's death, in 1964, Glidrose Productions Ltd planned a continuation series of James Bond books, to be written by a rotating series of authors, under the pseudonym "Robert Markham".
Written by Fleming's friend and colleague, John Pearson, the book differs from all other Bond novels in that it is a biography told in the first-person by Pearson upon meeting James Bond.
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 Ian Fleming Biography and List of Works - Ian Fleming Books
Fleming was unsuccessful at the attempt to join the Foreign Office and subsequently worked as, firstly as a sub-editor and journalist for the Reuters news service, including for a time in 1933 in Moscow, Russia and later as a stockbroker with Rowe and Pitman, in Bishopsgate.
Ian Fleming was also a noted bibliophile, and put together an important library on the theme of significant books in the history of western civilization, books which had "started something".
Early on the morning of August 12, 1964, Ian Fleming died of a heart attack in Canterbury, Kent, at age 56, and is interred in the churchyard cemetery in the village of Sevenhampton, near Swindon, next to his wife Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (1913-1981) and their only son, Caspar Robert Fleming (1952-1975).
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 Ian Fleming - MSN Encarta
Ian Fleming (1908-1964), British novelist, best known as creator of the popular suspense-fiction character James Bond, British secret service agent 007.
Born in London, Fleming was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, which he left after a year to study languages in Munich, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland.
He was then a banker and stockbroker in London until the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945), when he became personal assistant to the director of British naval intelligence.
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 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond
Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond is a detailed, intimate look behind the scenes, and behind the mask of a man who lived a life of privilege and high expectations, a life in which cars went fast-and women went faster.
Fleming was the son of a stockbroker who helped raise the capital for the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad.
Ian Fleming has all the excitement of the best Bond novels-all the passion and tragedy of a great love story and, with its dropped names, all the fun of a gossip column.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Ian Fleming - Author
Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in 1908 to a wealthy family (of Fleming's Bank fame).
Fleming's books were pilloried by critic Paul Johnson as being simply 'sex, sadism and snobbery', and while Fleming's attitude towards women was undoubtedly somewhat sado-masochistic (and Bond's also), their impact on thriller writing in the latter half of the twentieth century is not insignificant.
Ian Fleming died of heart failure in 1964 at the age of 56, the year the Bond film, From Russia With Love, was released.
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 Ian Fleming biography
Born in 1908 as the son of Valentine Fleming, and the grandson of the wealthy Scottish banker Robert Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming grew up the member of a rare class of Englishmen for whom all options are open.
Fleming not only had to live with the ghost of his father, but also with the shadow of his brother Peter, who after his father's passing filled the role of patriarch of the family.
Fleming's career as a writer deserves more examination than can be offered here, but suffice it to say, over the next 12 years, Ian Fleming transformed his elite existence, his arrogance, his style, and his acid wit into some of the greatest thrillers ever written.
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 Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming was born in London as the son of Major Valentine Fleming, a Conservative M.P., who was killed in World War I, and Evelyn St. Croix Fleming.
Fleming's first book was not a spy novel but a foreign correspondent's guide-book which was issued for the education of his staff.
Fleming did not like New York - he felt that it is losing its heart - but in Hamburg he followed with enthusiasm mud wrestling in the middle of the night.
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 Ian Fleming at Camp-X
Author Ian Fleming’s failure in a wartime espionage test, described in a recently published biography as at variance with the deeds of his fictional character, James Bond, didn’t happen exactly as described in the biography, a former security chief says.
The Life of Ian Fleming, the biography by British author John Pearson, says Fleming was unable to carry out an order to kill a man, described as a dangerous enemy agent, in a Toronto hotel room during the Second World War when Fleming was taking intelligence training near Oshawa, Ontario.
Fleming, whose fictional accounts of the cold-blooded exploits of secret agent Bond were best sellers from 1952 until Fleming’s death last year, was sent to the Oshawa school while serving with British naval intelligence during the war.
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 Fleming
Ian Fleming was the creator of James Bond - he wrote twelve James Bond novels between 1952 and 1964.
Fleming was plucked out of newspaper work to join British Naval Intelligence in 1939, when Churchill was still the First Lord of the Admiralty in Chamberlain's government.
Fleming was typical of the intelligence agents of his time, and thus archetypical of Bond, his creation.
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 Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming has spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge where is currently a Fellow of Pembroke College.
Dr. Fleming is best known for his work on organosilicon chemistry applied to organic synthesis, with which he has been heavily involved since 1972.
He was awarded the Tilden lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1981 and the Prize for Organic Synthesis in 1983 for the early stages of this work, and in 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society largely on the strength of his continuing contributions in the area of organosilicon chemistry.
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 Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ian Fleming's biographer John Pearson wrote that Fleming "surpassed himself by appealing to one of the most notorious men in the whole of the British Isles.
It is likely that Ian Fleming honestly believed he borrowed a few of Crowley's characteristic for the evil and sinister figure of Le Chiffre, but this figure is completely different from the real-life Aleister Crowley.
In 1939, during World War II, Ian Fleming was recruited from the firm of Rowe and Pitman, a merchant bank, to become one of the heads of the Department of Naval Intelligence in Britain.
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 Fleming's Jamaica - Top   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1997 the Commanders Club celebrated its tenth year as the singular entity involved in preservation and celebration of Ian Fleming's 007.
There Fleming wrote all 13 of the Bond novels while escaping the drab English winters and the "serious" literary set entertained by his wife Anne.
Fleming's love of authentic detail closes the loop in making Bond come alive, and at the same time that detail gives the dozens of real locations in 007's career a sense of marvelous fiction.
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 Ian Fleming [1908 - 1964] @ EOFFTV
Fleming had been a part of that team whose work decisively changed the course of the war.
Fleming had been hired to manage the foreign news sections of several of Kemsley's papers but had only accepted the position on the proviso that he be granted a two month holiday each year which, naturally, he planned to spend at Goldeneye.
Fleming kept his writing skills up to scratch by penning the odd travel article for Horizon magazine, but it was his impending marriage to Lady Anne Rothermere that seems to have acted as the catalyst for Fleming's leap into full time writing.
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Fleming used much of his own background for Bond's history, although a great deal of this is not seen until later in the series of novels, particularly the obituary chapter from You Only Live Twice.
As a young adult, Ian Fleming was considered to be strikingly good looking and, although he wrote that Bond resembled a young Hoagy Carmichael, he also added some of his own characteristics to Bond's general demeanour.
Fleming had a position of the highest security, vetting war plans and collating information, and his knowledge of the world of the spy was second to none, if only on paper.
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 Amazon.com: Casino Royale: Books: Ian Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ian Fleming's 1953 novel - premier introduction of the post WWII, fantastical cold war intrigues of Her Majesty's Secret Service's Master Spy, Agent 007, Bond - is a riveting read.
Ian Fleming's Bond is spare and tough, a kind of Spartan in a sack suit.
Fleming's writing is uncomplicated but finely crafted, and the story is dark and mordant with a strong central thread of tension and suspense which never wavers.
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 Ian Fleming - Biography - Moviefone
Not to be confused with the famed espionage novelist of the same name, Australian-born actor Ian Fleming was one of the best and longest-established character players in British films.
On stage since the age of sixteen, Fleming made his first film, Second to None in 1926--and his last, Return of Mr.
In this, Ian Fleming was an ideal Dr. Watson opposite Arthur Wontner in a series of British Sherlock Holmes films produced in the mid '30s.
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 Ian Fleming
And, though Ian Fleming's image of James Bond may not resemble Sean Connery, to the world he soon would be the iconic Bond of the big screen.
Fleming was the mastermind of numerous clever spying schemes, some deemed too outlandish to use.
The movie's script is based on the 1953 Ian Fleming novel, which is the first, darkest and most violent of the Bond books.
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 Ian Fleming News
FROM Audrey Hepburn and Alfred Hitchcock to Nicolas Cage and Ian...
In a crucial test case earlier this year involving Michael Fleming, an Aston Martin dealer and descendant of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, the Government was forced to abandon its position that people...
A new James Bond novel will be published in 2008 to mark the centenary of creator Ian Fleming's birth, but the identity of the new author is being kept under wraps, the Reuters news service reported.
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 thunderball obsessional: james bond and his thunderbirds!
Fleming decides to live in Jamaica - land on the north shore at Oracabessa bought for £2000 (£2000 also quoted to build the house).
Fleming and Bryce had begun to cool on the project - McClory met with Fleming at Goldeneye and McClory was told that he had three options - back out as producer / director, convince whatever backer they eventually found to hire him (as producer / director) or thirdly - go to court.
Fleming wrote the book for his son, Caspar, and was adapted into a musical film in 1968.
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 Amazon.com: Moonraker: Books: Ian Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was the author of fourteen James Bond adventures.
Fleming's friends impressed on him that if the first novel failed he would be less inclined to write a second one.
We also see Bond as the spy that Fleming was probably most familiar with: deskwork, paperwork, target practice, etc. It's not until midway through that Bond realizes he's involved in more than just a case of a card-cheat and instead involved in a case of a man who is trying to wipe out London.
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 Fleming, Ian Lancaster - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
FLEMING, IAN LANCASTER [Fleming, Ian Lancaster] 1908-64, English spy novelist, b.
Son of a Conservative member of Parliament, Fleming was educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and Munich and Geneva universities and worked as Reuters' Moscow correspondent (1929-33), a stockbroker (1935-39), a British naval intelligence official during World War II, and foreign manager for the London Sunday Times (1945-59).
Jack Straw's invitation was all it took to lure Condoleezza Rice to the jewel of Lancashire.
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 Ian Fleming
Fleming is the creator of the fictional superspy James Bond.
Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming British author, journalist Born: 5/28/1908 Birthplace: London, England Author best...
Ian Fleming - Writer, born 28 May 1908, The creator of James Bond 007
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 Fleming,Ian Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
James Bond is introduced in Fleming's first novel, a classic spy thriller replete with devilish villains, daring escapes, and, of course, dry martinis.
Ian Fleming introduced the character of James Bond in this collection of five short stories, which includes "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "A Quantum of Solace", "Risico", and "The Hildebrand Rarity".
This new Penguin edition comprises four stories, including Fleming's little-known story "007 in New York," showcasing Bond's taste for Manhattan's special pleasures--from martinis at the Plaza and dinner at the Grand Central Oyster Bar to the perfect anonymity of the Central Park Zoo for a secret rendezvous.
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 Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! The Ian Fleming Foundation
The works of Ian Lancaster Fleming and the subsequent James Bond phenomenon are a major component of the popular culture of the world in the Twentieth Century - unmatched by any other literary based phenomenon.
The Ian Fleming Foundation (a nonprofit corporation) is dedicated to the study and preservation of the history of Fleming's literary works, the James Bond phenomenon, and their impact on the culture of the Twentieth Century.
The Ian Fleming Foundation has been formed with the goals of procuring, restoring, and archiving Ian Fleming's legacy for the general public.
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