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The last words of James Bond author Ian Fleming were an apology to his ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days."
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Actor Christopher Lee was a cousin of James Bond author Ian Fleming and a relative of American general Robert E. Lee.
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During WW2, the Nazis fell for a plot, masterminded by James Bond author Ian Fleming to pass off a dead tramp as an officer carrying secret documents, to convince the Germans to divert troops from Sicily ahead of the successful Allied invasion of the island.
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Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher. When choosing a name for the hero of Casino Royal he used the name of the author of one of his bird books - James Bond. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of You Only Live Twice signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity".
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Ian Fleming (author of James Bond) used to drink as much as a bottle of gin per day. He later switched to bourbon after a doctor informed him of his failing health.
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Bond author Ian Fleming believed a popular theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. He believed this to such an extent that he promoted the theory in one of the Bond novels.
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Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist / cryptographer, and Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, worked together during WWII. They rarely agreed on anything.
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JFK was a huge James Bond fan. He first met the author of the series, Ian Fleming, at a dinner party in 1960. They allegedly bounced around ideas about how to get rid of Fidel Castro.
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Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia, with Love, The Diamond Smugglers, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Thrilling Cities, You Only Live Twice, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights.
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In WWII the British had a secret plan to seal six men within the Rock of Gibraltar should it be captured by the Germans so they could report on ship movements through the strait. Ian Fleming (James Bond author) was part of the team behind it, and the plan's mastermind was the inspiration for M.
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Moonraker was published in 1955 and Diamonds are Forever was published in 1956. Ian Fleming's spy novels soon became a favorite series for many readers, including United States President John F. Kennedy, and Prince Philip in England.
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Barbara Cartland married Hugh McCorquodale, her first husband's cousin, in 1936. She had two sons with him named Ian and Glen.
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Ian Fleming had a heart attack in 1962, the same year that Dr. No was released. He died in 1964 in Canterbury, England, never knowing how successful his James Bond character would be in future decades in movies. He was only 56 and had been a heavy smoker and drinker and had heart disease as a result.
Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale was published in 1953. He wrote the book a year earlier while on vacation at his home. His home was called Goldeneye after a military mission.
Alexander and his family live close to other famous writers including Ian Rankin, and JK Rowling.
Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was an amateur ornithologist, and named his most famous character after the author of a book on ornithology.
Ian Fleming married Anne Rothermere and had their first and only child Caspar in 1952.
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Ian Fleming wrote 12 James Bond novels, as well as several short stories about his famous spy.
As a journalist covering the Purge trials in Soviet Moscow during the 1930s, James Bond author Ian Fleming tried to interview Stalin. While he didn't succeed, Stalin still decided to send Fleming a personally signed note apologizing for being unable to attend the interview.
During Ian Fleming's lifetime his novels sold more than 30 million copies. In the two years after he died that number doubled. His books have sold more than 100 million copies to date.
Christopher Hitchens went to work for the political left weekly New Statesman in 1973. While working there he met the authors Ian McEwan and Martin Amis.
After his death, other writers continued the James Bond character.
Camp X, a WWII spy school that was the first of its kind in north america. Famous graduates could include Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels.
