Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by Nicholas Shakespeare
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, by biographer and novelist Nicholas Shakespeare, is now out in the US. It’s the first authorized biography of Fleming since 1966, lengthy (800+ pages) but very readable. If you’re curious about the man who created James Bond, this is the biography to read about him. Fleming served in naval intelligence during World War II, lived life to the full on all fronts, and died at age 56 of a heart attack.
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“Another is Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man is an authorized biography and offsets some of the more negative accounts of his life as a train wreck which ended early (he died of heart disease at age 56)…Both my parents were Dutch and I suppose like others around the world we half-believed that James Bond/Ian Fleming was a typical mid-20th century Englishman. With this book, we find out a bit more what Fleming was actually like.” Read more...
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