Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming, the English creator of James Bond, wrote his spy novels in the years after the Second World War. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he worked as a journalist and served in Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the war, experience he drew on for the books. He wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, in 1952 at the age of 44, and eleven more novels and two story collections followed. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, a story for children, is also his.