Male : Novelist. Brother of Peter Fleming. Attached to Naval Intelligence in WW2. Married Anne Charteris (formerly Lady Rothermere) in 1952. Built his own house 'Goldeneye' in Jamaica. Died following heart problems

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1908 Date of Death : 1964 Age : 56

Other Work : Newspaper Executive. Banker. Stockbroker

Education : Eton & Sandhurst, Munich & Geneva Universities

All Cape
1947-1950
Where Shall John Go ? (in Horizon, December 1947) - [1st writing under his own name]

1953-1955
Casino Royale (1953) (1954 Macmillan US) (1954 Pan)
[Only 4750 published, many going to public libraries. It took six to seven years to sell 10.000 copies !]
[At the 1997 London Bookfair a fine copy of the UK first was on offer for £5,950
Another auction price, in 2001, £8.280]
Another UK First offered in 2002 at £21.300
[Filmed in 1967]
Issued in US as - "You Asked For It" (1955 Popular Library pb, US)
Casino Royale (2nd & 3rd impressions have the original D/W)
Casino Royale (1954 4th Impression. Has the Playing-card D/W)
Live and Let Die (1954) (1955 Macmillan) (1955 Pan)
[The 1st state d/w has no credit to Kenneth Lewis, but the 2nd state does)]
[Filmed in 1973]
Moonraker (1955) (1955 Macmillan) (1956 Pan)
A UK First edition was sold at auction in 2001 for £2070
In US as " Too Hot to Handle" (1956 Perma Books pb, US)
[The serialization of the Bond stories in The Daily Express & publication by Pan Books massively
increased the readship and interest in Bond ]
[Filmed in 1979]

1956-1960
Diamonds are Forever (1956) - 12.500 copies (1956 Macmillan) (1957 Pan)
[Filmed in 1971]
From Russia with Love (1957) (1957 Macmillan) (1958 Pan)
[Filmed in 1963]
Dr No (1958) (1958 Macmillan) (1959 Pan)
[When this was filmed in 1962 - the first Bond film starring Sean Connery - it again increased
interest in Bond]
Goldfinger (1959) (1959 Macmillan) (1960 Pan)
[Filmed in 1964]
For Your Eyes Only (1960) (1960 Viking) (1962 Pan)
[Filmed in 1981 but Fleming was not credited for writing the book !]

1961-1966
Thunderball (1961) (1961 Viking) (1963 Pan)
[Filmed in 1965]
The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) (1962 Viking) (1962 Pan)
[Filmed in 1977]
Bonded Fleming (1962 Viking Press,NY)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) - 250 signed
[A signed edition was sold at auction in 2001 for at £3680]
(1963 NAL) (1954 Pan)
[Filmed in 1969]
You Only Live Twice (1964) (1964 NAL) (1965 Pan)
[Filmed in 1967]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) (1965 NAL) (1966 Pan)
[Filmed in 1974]
Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966) (1966 NAL) (1967 Pan)
["Octopussy" filmed in 1983]

CHILDREN
All illus by John Burningham
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang : The Magical Car - Adventure No 1 (1964 Cape)
[Filmed in 1968]
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang : The Magical Car - Adventure No 2 (1964 Cape)
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang : The Magical Car - Adventure No 3 (1965 Cape) (1964 Random House)
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang : The Complete Adventures of the Magical Car (1971 Cape) - Omnibus Edition

NON-FICTION
The Diamond Smugglers (1957 Cape) (1958 Macmillan NY) (1960 Pan)
(Intro) Herbert O Yardley : The Education of a Poker Player (1959 Cape)
(Intro) Donald Fish : Airline Detective (1962 Collins)
(Intro) Hugh Edwards : All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's (1963 Cape)
(In) The Ivory Hammer : The Year at Sotherby's (1963 Longman) - contains a James Bond story
Thrilling Cities (1963 Cape) (1964 NAL)
Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica (1965 Deutsch) (1965 Hawthorne)

READING
William Plomer : Ian Fleming - address given at Fleming's Memorial Service (1964 Westerman Press)
Henry Zeiger : Ian Fleming - The Spy Who Came in with the Gold (1965 Duell, Sloan & Press, US)
Richard Gant : The Man with the Golden Pen (1966 Mayflower-Dell pb
Richard Grant : The Fantastic 007 Man (1966 Lancer pb US)
John Pearson : The Life of Ian Fleming - Creator of James Bond (1966 Cape 36/-) (1966 McGraw Hill)
Eleanor & Dennis Pelrine : Ian Fleming - The Man with the Golden Pen (1966 Swan, US)
John Pearson : The Authorized Biography of Ian Fleming (1973 Sidgwick & Jackson) (1973 Morrow)
Ivar Bryce : You Only Live Once - Memories of Ian Fleming (1975 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
[Suppressed by publishers]
(Ed) Mark Amory : The Letters of Anne Fleming (1985 Collins)
Bruce A Rosenberg & Anne Harleman Stewart : Ian Fleming (1989 Twayne US)
Donald McCormick : 17F - The Life of Ian Fleming (1993 Peter Owen £17.99)
Andrew Lycett : Ian Fleming (1995 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20)

[In the early 1960s Fleming transferred all his copyrights to his own private company
Gildrose Productions, which in 1964 he sold to Booker Brothers for £100.000 !]