Ian Fleming

Biography

Fleming was born with Mayfair, with London of Valentine Fleming and Evelyn St Cross Fleming. Peter Fleming, an older brother was also writer. He made his studies with Eton College and with the military academy of Sandhurst then studied German with Kitzbühel in Austria. It was registered then with the Université of Munich in 1928 and with that of Geneva the following year. Then, he worked as journalist for Reuters then as Stockbroker.

In 1939, the day before the war, John Godfrey, the director of the British Department off Naval Intelligence of Royal Navy recruited Fleming as assistant, initially as lieutenant, then as commander. For this period, Fleming conceived a plan, which was not carried out, the Opération Without-Pity, to capture the codes Enigma of the Kriegsmarine. This work of assistant in the secret services and a stay in a school of instruction for secret agents, installed in a house close to Toronto, made it possible Fleming to draw up the background of its spy novels. The first novel putting in scene James Bond was Espions made your plays ( Casino Royal ), published in 1953. In addition to to have written twelve novels and nine news with agent 007, Fleming wrote also novels for children like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . All these books had a great success in the years 1950 and made it possible Fleming to be comfortably withdrawn in a house in Jamaica.

In 1962, Fleming proposed his/her cousin, the actor Christopher Lee to play the part of the Dr. No, the malicious of first film. The role returned finally to Joseph Wiseman, but Christopher Lee obtained a few years later the role of Fancisco Scaramanga, in the Man with the gold gun ( The Man with the Golden Gun ).

In 1964, Ian Fleming died of a Heart attack with Canterbury at age the 56 years and it was buried with Sevenhampton, close to Swindon, where also put back its wife Geraldine Mary Fleming (1913-1981) and their only son Caspar Robert Fleming (1952-1975).

Ian Fleming was also important a bibliophile.

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