From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man” it is clear that we are in good hands. At a hastily arranged funeral in a village church, Fleming’s ...

I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare. I contacted Mr. Shakespeare and asked him why ...

Before he became a spy or a novelist, Ian Fleming was a newspaperman. In 1933 he reported for Reuters on a blockbuster show trial in the Soviet Union in which a group of British engineers faced ...

It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter in his house in Jamaica and at a frenetic 2,000 words a day, banged out a novel that began, ...

Ian Fleming (left) on location in Jamaica with Sean Connery while filming Dr No (1962) - Bert Cann/Film Stills Considering that James Bond was employed on a mid-ranking civil servant’s salary of ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Rather Bondlike, that “pitilessly.” Bondlike, too, is the “short spasm of life” in the little poem. In fact, although he wouldn’t be ...

(Reuters) - The new James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" is premiered in London on Wednesday. British author Ian Fleming, creator of the superspy James Bond, was born 100 years ago in 1908. Here are ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. By Nicholas Shakespeare. Harvill Secker; 864 pages; £30. To be published in America by Harper in March; $35 That Kennedy should have sought Fleming’s (and Bond’s) advice ...