Biography
Fleming was innate within Mayfair, London, England, to the wealthy Scottish banker Valentine Fleming and his wife Evelyn St. Croix Fleming, & was the immature brother of travel writer, Peter Fleming. He was educated at Eton College, Fettes College and Sandhurst military academy, then exposed languages on the Continent, number 1 at Kitzbühel, Austria, so at Munich University, Bavaria, Germany; afterward working, first as a journalist for the Reuters news service, and late as a stockbroker with Rowe and Pitman, around Bishopsgate.

Inside 1939, on the eve of World War II, Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy, recruited Fleming when individual supporter, 1st when Lieutenant, so as Commander. Fleming travelled to Whitby, Ontario to train at Camp X, a top secret how to training school for Allied forces. When around Naval Intelligence, Fleming conceived, & was creator of Operation Ruthless, a project — left unexecuted — for capturing a German naval version of the Wehrmacht's Enigma communications encoder. He besides come higher by having an attempt to apply British occultist Aleister Crowley to trick Rudolph Hess into attempting to contact the false cell of anti-Churchill Englishmen within Britain. This project wasn't utilized, nonetheless, when Rudolph Hess experienced flown to Engl& and parachuted inside an attempt to professional peace behind Hitler's back. Anthony Masters's book A Human World health organization Was M: A Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight (ISBN 0-631-13392-Five), asserts Fleming conceived a project that with success lured Nazi Person Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess into flying to Scotland — in Can 1941, to negotiate Anglo–German peace by using Churchill — & resulting captivity; this claim has there is no more source.

When a DNI's household helper, Fleming's intelligence function was a background & personal experience for writing spy novels. A 1st James Attach novel was Casino Royale, published in 1953. These are believed a woman character, Vesper Lynd, was inspired by real-life SOE agent, Christine Granville; likewise, various inspirations for James Bond, the protagonist, stand been suggested. Besides writing a dozen novels and nine short stories featuring James Bond, intelligence agent 007, Ian Fleming besides is known for writing them's novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. A books became wildly successful & section of 1950s popular culture even prior to existence filmed, allowing Fleming to retire comfortably to his zero in Jamaica.

Inside 1961 Fleming agreed to allow Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produce a movie based on Dr. No. Around 1962, Fleming suggested his first cousin, actor Christopher Lee play Dr. Julius No, the villain of the first film; sources say Lee also was considered for the James Bond role. Although Lee was non selected for either role within Dr. There are no, he would become cast a eponymic villain of A film The Man with the Golden Gun, Francisco Scaramanga. Dr. There is no became the immense hit, & was followed by Broccoli & Saltzman producing From Russia With Love, which would be a go Attach picture Fleming would survive to watch freed.

Ian Fleming was too the noted bibliophile, and collectively an important library on the theme of significant books in the history of western culture, books which experienced "started something". He particularly collected books on to science & technology like On the Origin of Species, but when well involved such milestones as Mein Kampf and Scouting for Boys. He was the major loaner to the 1963 exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man and 600 books from his collection come okay, in the Lilly Library at Indiana University.

Early the morning of August 12, 1964, Ian Fleming died of a heart attack in Canterbury, Kent, at age 56, and is interred in the god's acre memorial park in the village of Sevenhampton, near Swindon, next to his wife Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (1913–1981) and their just boy, Caspar Robert Fleming (1952–1975). Occasionally guiding light surviving relatives of a writer include a composer Alan Fleming-Baird & the violoncellist Amyrilis Fleming.

In Might Five, 1995, Pierce Brosnan, a fifth official James Attach actor, bought the gold-plated typewriter on which Ian Fleming wrote some of his James Attach novels within Jamaicthe for a reported £52,800.

Selected works
James Bond books
Casino Royale (1953)¹ Live and Let Die (1954) Moonraker (1955)² Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia With Love (1957) Dr. No (1958) Goldfinger (1959) For Your Eyes Only (1960)³ Thunderball (1961)⁴ The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)⁵ ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)⁶ Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)⁷

Notes
^One1st U.S. paperbacked edition was retitled, Professional people Asked for It.
^TwoForemost U.S. paperbacked edition was retitled, As well Hot to Handgrip''.
^TrineShort story collection: (we) "From A View to a Kill," (deuce) "For Your Eyes Only," (three) "Risico," (4) "Quantum of Solace", & (v) "The Hildebrand Rarity."
^{Little joe}Subject of the legal battle above story credit which led to the book's plot line as well existence credited to Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham; see the controversy over Thunderball
^VFleming gives co-joint author credit to "Vivienne Michel", the made-up heroine of the book; Fleming refused to allow a paperbacked edition to become published in the UK, however a single was yet published fallowing his demise. His agreement sustaining Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman simply allowed the utilize of the title for a picture show.
^{Captain hicks}For years, it has been alleged that Kingsley Amis, and/or others, completed this novel as Fleming died prior to the finished manuscript was created. Numbers of Fleming biographers dispute this; understand the controversy over ''The Man with the Golden Gun.
^SeptenaryPosthumously compiled short story collection. Originally promulgated using 2 stories: (i personally) "Octopussy" & (2) "The Living Daylights". A 1967 paperbacked edition's title was shortened to Octopussy & the third story, "The Property of a Lady", lengthened its web page count. In a Nineties, the collection's yearn, original title was restored, & sustaining a 2002 edition, a story, "007 in New York" (originally published inside a few editions of Thrilling Cities (understand beneath) was added.

Children's story
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)

Non-fiction
The Diamond Smugglers (1957) Thrilling Cities (1963; a U.s. editions contain the short story, "007 in New York")

Unfinished/unpublished works
Fleming saved the scrapbook containing notes & ideas for new James Attach stories. Involved were fragments of imaginable short stories or even novels featuring Attach that were never published. Excepts from either a few one may be incurred in The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson[http://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/007/scrapbook/]. Creator Geoffrey Jenkins worked with Fleming in the James Attach story idea between 1957 & 1964. Fallowing Fleming's dying, Jenkins was licensed by In bondage publishers Glidrose Productions to turn this story, Per Fine Ounce into a novel, however it was never published.

Biographical films
Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, 1989. The TV movie starring Charles Dance as Ian Fleming. A picture show focuses in Fleming's life in the period of World War II, and his love that led to the creation of James Attach. Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, 1990. The TV film star Jason Connery (son of Sean) as a writer witharound a fanciful dramatisation of his career in British intelligence which is depicted by having the rather Attach-such as action & glamor that Fleming secretly wished it stand been. Ian Fleming: Bondmaker, 2005. The TV infotainment foremost broadcast in BBC in August 2005. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479931/fullcredits]