Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming, born on 28 May 1908 and died on 12 August 1964, was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. He was educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the University of Geneva, and he moved through several jobs before he started writing. During the Second World War he worked for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division, and he drew on that service and on his career as a journalist for much of the background of his Bond novels. He wrote the first of them, Casino Royale, in 1952 at the age of 44, and eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966.