I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare. I contacted Mr. Shakespeare and asked him why ...

From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man” it is clear that we are in good hands. At a hastily arranged funeral in a village church, Fleming’s ...

Time to think about Ian Fleming differently. In it, you’ll find a recently rediscovered story penned by Fleming, which will make even his biggest fans think differently about his writing and ...

In Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His life ...

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Before he became a spy or a novelist, Ian Fleming was a newspaperman. In 1933 he reported for Reuters on a blockbuster show trial in the Soviet Union in which a group of British engineers faced ...

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Before James Bond became one of the longest-running film franchises in history, 007 began life on the page. The iconic spy was the creation of Ian Fleming, who wrote 14 books starring the character.