Ian Fleming Dies: James Bond's Creator Leaves Lasting Spy Legacy
Ian Fleming served in British Naval Intelligence during World War II and spent those years inventing operations, some of which worked and some of which didn't. The ones that didn't could have been James Bond plots. He started writing the Bond novels in 1952 at his Jamaica estate, partly to distract himself from his impending marriage. He wrote one a year, in January, before returning to London. He didn't think much of them as literature. He thought they were entertaining. He was right about the second part.
August 12, 1964
62 years ago
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