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Ian Fleming - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew LycettPublish date:2013-10-01Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's PressISBN-13:9781250037985ISBN-10:1250037980UPC:9781250037985Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, Mystery & Detective FictionAward:2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical AwardSize:9.46 x 6.47 x 1.57 inchesWeight:1.5917Product ID:SCJS1S7NND

We all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of Ian Fleming's life proving that it was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation. Educated at Eaton and Sandhurst, he joined Naval Intelligence in 1939 participating in both Operation Mincemeat and Operation Golden Eye. After the war, he became a journalist and, in 1953, wrote Casino Royale thereby introducing the world to an English spy named James Bond.

Set in London, Switzerland and Fleming's Jamaican estate Goldeneye, his life was peopled with luminaries like Noel Coward, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bond film producer "Cubby" Broccoli and others. With direct access to Fleming's family and friends, Lycett goes behind the complicated fa?ade of this enigmatic and remarkable man. Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett is biography at its best--a glittering portrait of the brilliant and enigmatic man who created Agent 007.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's PressISBN-13:9781250037985ISBN-10:1250037980UPC:9781250037985Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, Mystery & Detective FictionAward:2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical AwardSize:9.46 x 6.47 x 1.57 inchesWeight:1.5917Product ID:SCJS1S7NND

ANDREW LYCETT is an English biographer and journalist. He is the author of Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas: A New Life and Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. He lives in London.


Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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🏆 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical Award

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Andrew Lycett

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