Ian Fleming - Ebury Street
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Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, lived here for a while.
Waymark Code: WMBB64
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/29/2011
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Ian Fleming lived from
1908-1964 and lived here from 1934-1935.
The plaque reads:
IAN
FLEMING
1908-1964
Creator of James Bond
lived here
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May
1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence
Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond
and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character,
which are one of the best-selling series of related novels of all time having
sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction. Fleming is reputed
to have been the designer of Operation Mincemeat and Operation
Goldeneye, the former of which was successfully carried out during the
Second World War.
In 2008, The Times
ranked Fleming fourteenth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since
1945".
Text source:
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