Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the children's story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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

1First U.S. paperback edition was retitled, You Asked for It.

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2First U.S. paperback edition was retitled, Too Hot to Handle.

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3Short story collection: (i) "From A View to a Kill," (ii) "For Your Eyes Only," (iii) "Risico," (iv) "Quantum of Solace", and (v) "The Hildebrand Rarity."

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4Subject of a legal battle over story credit which led to the book's storyline also being credited to Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham; see the controversy over Thunderball

Related Topics:
Kevin McClory - Jack Whittingham - The controversy over ''Thunderball''

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5Fleming gives co-author credit to "Vivienne Michel", the fictional heroine of the book; Fleming refused to allow a paperback edition to be published in the UK, but one was eventually published after his death. His agreement with Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman only allowed the use of the title for a movie.

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6For years, it has been alleged that Kingsley Amis, and/or others, completed this novel as Fleming died before a finished manuscript was created. Many Fleming biographers dispute this; see the controversy over The Man with the Golden Gun.

Related Topics:
Kingsley Amis - The controversy over ''The Man with the Golden Gun

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7Posthumously compiled short story collection. Originally published with two stories: (i) "Octopussy" and (ii) "The Living Daylights". The 1967 paperback edition's title was shortened to Octopussy and a third story, "The Property of a Lady", lengthened its page count. In the 1990s, the collection's longer, original title was restored, and with the 2002 edition, the story, "007 in New York" (originally published in some editions of Thrilling Cities (see below) was added.

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Children's story

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)

Non-fiction

• The Diamond Smugglers (1957)
• Thrilling Cities (1963; the American editions contain the short story, "007 in New York")

Unfinished/unpublished works

• Fleming kept a scrapbook containing notes and ideas for future James Bond stories. Included were fragments of possible short stories or novels featuring Bond that were never published. Excepts from some of these can be found in The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearsonhttp://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/007/scrapbook/.
• Author Geoffrey Jenkins worked with Fleming on a James Bond story idea between 1957 and 1964. After Fleming's death, Jenkins was commissioned by Bond publishers Glidrose Productions to turn this story, Per Fine Ounce into a novel, but it was never published.