James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007

...Benson wrote the novelisation of Die Another Day which was published later in the year. Die Another Day is considered Benson's final James Bond novel; the following Bond stories being a series of novels about a teenage James Bond in the...

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...Greece in October 1944. After the war O'Donnell began to script comic strips, including the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel, Dr. No ''. From 1953-1966 he wrote for ''Garth '', and from 1956-1962 ''Romeo Brown (with Jim...

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...Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel , Casino Royale ''; he assigned most of his rights in ''Casino Royale, and the works...

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Dr. No (also Dr No and Doctor No) is Ian Fleming's sixth James Bond novel, originally published on the 31 March 1958 . This novel was inspired by Fleming's having read Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories at Eton College. Dr. No was originally a...

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...would retreat for the first two months of the year to his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye, to write a James Bond book. Between 1953 and 1966, twelve James Bond novels and two short story collections by Fleming were published, including one...

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...the sort of thing I'd expect him to tell the kid. Adam Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 05:10 PM EST Sherlock Holmes looks awful. Too much "James Bond" style for me. Holmes is a dark mysterious character, not a action star. 1000 characters...

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...hope people like it. If not, they can go straight to hell." Adam Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 05:10 PM EST Sherlock Holmes looks awful. Too much "James Bond" style for me. Holmes is a dark mysterious character, not a action star. The rules:...

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Thanks to the success of the Oakes series, Gardner was chosen to carry on the James Bond franchise after Ian Fleming's death. He wrote 14 Bond novels, two more than Fleming himself. In all, Gardner wrote more than 40 novels, including three...

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...to hold a plot together that dogs many of its creator's novels and none of Fleming's. It was followed by John Pearson's crazed James Bond: The Authorised Biography, which pictures Bond not only as a real person but as a lounge lizard...

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...detailing his 1963 plagiarism case is itself the subject of a legal dispute The author Len Deighton has condemned the family of James Bond author Ian Fleming, accusing them of censorship and "bad taste". The Fleming family, one of the...

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