Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London on 28th May 1908, the second of four brothers. He was educated at Eton College and then abroad in Germany and Austria. After an early career at Reuters news agency, he became a stockbroker. During World War 2 he worked as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence [...]

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism.  He was the father of English novelist Martin Amis. In 2008, The [...]

John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, worked for a period as an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and [...]

Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973. In primary school Benson took an interest in the piano which would [...]

Christopher Hovelle Wood (born 5 November 1935 in London’s Lambeth borough is an English screenwriter and novelist best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as ‘Timothy Lea’.  Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen Wood was the first author to write novelizations of [...]

Charles Murray Higson (born 3 July 1958), more commonly known as Charlie Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television. In 2004, it was announced that Higson would pen the Young Bond series of James Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on the [...]

Sebastian Faulks, one of Britain’s most admired novelists, is the author of Devil May Care, which he wrote at the invitation of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to mark Ian Fleming’s centenary. The book was published on 28 May 2008 by Penguin Books in the UK, Doubleday in the US and around the world by our [...]

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded [...]