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Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father Valentine Fleming was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Mü…
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culture · British writer (1908–1964) · journalist · writer · novelist · screenwriter · prose writer · sailor · also Ian Fleming, Fleming
Born 28 May 1908 · Died 12 August 1964 · Q82104
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2026· 3 entries
“while thrillers may not be Literature with a capital L, it is possible to write what I can best describe as”
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Public attention spiked: 13,757 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 3,630, with 0 article edits.
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare review – the other international man of mystery
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It was reported that Fleming's James Bond series was being re-published, removing a number of racial slurs and references
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2011· 1 entry
Fleming became the first English-language writer to have an international airport named after him: Ian Fleming International Airport, near Oracabessa, Jamaica, was officially opened on 12 January 2011 by Jamaican Prime M
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2008· 2 entries
The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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The Times ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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2002· 1 entry
Ian Fleming Publications announced the launch of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, presented by the Crime Writers' Association to the best thriller, adventure or spy novel originally published in the UK
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1981· 1 entry
And was buried with her husband and their son
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1968· 1 entry
Several authors have been commissioned to write Bond novels, including Sebastian Faulks, who was asked by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel in observance of what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday
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1964· 6 entries
Died 1964-08-12.
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By producer Norman Felton to write a spy series for television, Fleming provided several ideas, including the names of characters Napoleon Solo and April Dancer, for the series The Man from U
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“Jakże dawno minęły te czasy wiaderka i łopatki, jakże daleko zostawił za sobą te piegi, tę czekoladę mleczną Cadbury Flakes i musującą lemoniadę. (…) Dzisiaj jest dorosły, ma za sobą całe lata plugawych i niebezpiecznych wspomnień – on, agent i szpieg.”
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“Ej, Angol! Jak się nazywasz?– Bond. James Bond.– Głupie nazwisko. Z Anglii, co?”
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“s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964) and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of”
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“[In Goldfinger, Pussy Galore] only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady.”
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1963· 1 entry
“I write for about three hours in the morning ... and I do another hour”
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1962· 1 entry
“Association to the best thriller, adventure or spy novel originally published in the UK. The Eon Productions series of Bond films, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, continued after Fleming”
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1961· 1 entry
Aged 53, he suffered a heart attack and struggled to recuperate
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1960· 1 entry
Fleming was commissioned by the Kuwait Oil Company to write a book on the country and its oil industry
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1958· 1 entry
When Fleming's friend Ivar Bryce introduced him to a young Irish writer and director, Kevin McClory, and the three, together with Fleming and Bryce's friend Ernest Cuneo, worked on a script
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1957· 1 entry
And was partly based on background research for his fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever
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1953· 1 entry
I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument
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1951· 1 entry
Because of her relationship with Fleming, and the couple married on 24 March 1952 in Jamaica, a few months before their son Caspar was born in August
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1948· 1 entry
Gave birth to Fleming's daughter, Mary, who was stillborn
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1947· 1 entry
Won King Christian X's Liberty Medal (1947).
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1945· 1 entry
Fleming had a house built, which he named Goldeneye
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1944· 1 entry
Fleming was overcome with guilt and remorse, and it is generally thought that she provided the inspiration for the women he was to create for his future novels
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1942· 2 entries
Fleming formed a unit of commandos, known as No
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Fleming attended an Anglo-American intelligence summit in Jamaica and, despite the constant heavy rain during his visit, he decided to live on the island once the war was over
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1941· 1 entry
Liaised with Donovan over American involvement in a measure intended to ensure the Germans did not dominate the seaways
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1940· 1 entry
Fleming and Godfrey contacted Kenneth Mason, Professor of Geography at Oxford University, about the preparation of reports on the geography of countries involved in military operations
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1939· 1 entry
Fleming began an affair with Ann O'Neill, née Charteris, who was married to the 3rd Baron O'Neill; she was also having an affair with Esmond Harmsworth, the heir to Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail
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1935· 1 entry
Moved to Rowe and Pitman on Bishopsgate as a stockbroker
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1927· 3 entries
Without gaining a commission, after contracting gonorrhea
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To prepare Fleming for possible entry into the Foreign Office, his mother sent him to the Tennerhof in Kitzbühel, Austria, a small private school run by the Adlerian disciple and former British spy Ernan Forbes Dennis an
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Studied at Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1927).
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1921· 1 entry
Fleming enrolled at Eton College
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1914· 2 entries
With the start of the First World War, Valentine Fleming joined "C" Squadron of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and rose to the rank of major
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Fleming attended Durnford School, a preparatory school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-05-28.
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