The Life of Ian Fleming altered after film producer Kevin McClory alleged that parts of the biography were untrue regarding the novel and film rights to "Thunderball". In 1989 the biography was turned into a movie, "Goldeneye". The 1967 American paperback edition was retitled "Alias James Bond—The Life of Ian Fleming". No other edition has this title. The Life of Ian Fleming The Life of Ian Fleming is a biography of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and author of the children’s book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming’s assistant at the London "Sunday Times," in 1966. Pearson
Ian Fleming his family, at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. Fleming was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. In 1914, with the start of the First World War, Valentine Fleming joined "C" Squadron, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and rose to the rank of major. He was killed by German shelling on the Western Front on 20 May 1917; Winston Churchill wrote an obituary that appeared in "The Times". Because the family owned an estate at Arnisdale, Valentine's death was commemorated on the Glenelg War Memorial. Fleming's