In Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of author Ian Fleming, James Bond arrives on the scene rather late. But there’s a good reason to delay focusing on the secret agent Fleming created: His life ...

According to James Bond creator, Ian Fleming's 2023 biography, actress Susan Hayward was reportedly considered for the role of Bond before Sean Connery was cast. The author's biography, Ian Fleming: ...

IAN FLEMING: A BIOGRAPHY By Andrew Lycett St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 512 pages illustrated When it comes to James Bond on screen, viewers have their favorite actor to portray this unique brand of spy ...

Some years ago, I gave a talk to the graduating seniors at a local school. Whatever I said that night — probably something about the importance of books and reading — has utterly vanished from my ...

The words “Bond, James Bond” conjure an image, an institution, an industry unique in the annals of literature. Seven decades after Bond’s birth and almost six since the death of his creator, Nicholas ...

Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of Ian Fleming, the fifth to have appeared since 1966, boasts access to previously unseen letters, family papers and new interviews, a process of copious research ...

Exhaustive and compulsively readable, Lycett’s latest (first published in the U.K. in 1995) is billed as the first full-length Fleming biography to be published in America. Biographer Lycett (Dylan ...

Ian Fleming biography reveals producers considered American star Susan Hayward in lead role believing it might broaden films’ appeal Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the ...