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Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming circa 1958
Occupation intelligence agent, novelist
Known for created the character James Bond, a suave yet brutal spy, "with a license to kill"

Ian Fleming was a writer from the United Kingdom.[1]

He is best known for creating the fiction character of James Bond, a secret agent with "a license to kill". Fleming wrote 12 novels featuring Bond.[1]

Fleming served in Naval Intelligence during World War 2 and commentators credit his real world experience for making his novels more entertaining.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 John F. Burns (2008-05-19). "Remembering Fleming, Ian Fleming". International Herald Tribune. London. Retrieved 2024-02-13. Perhaps because of the difficulty he found in resisting life's indulgences, he adopted a strict writing routine in his last 12 years, the period in which he wrote more than a dozen Bond novels that spawned the multibillion-dollar film franchise.