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\n British author and creator of James Bond Ian Fleming (1908-1964) with two pieces of original artwork from the American hardback editions of his books, circa 1960.
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<\/p>\n Horst Tappe\/Getty Images\/Archive Photos<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Ian Fleming, the British writer best known for creating the world’s most famous spy, is back in the spotlight decades after his death.<\/p>\n Before he published the James Bond stories that made him famous, he worked as a stockbroker and served unofficially at times for British intelligence. In the 1950s, his James Bond books quickly captured the public’s imagination and became an enduring pop culture phenomenon. President John F. Kennedy famously carried a copy of From Russia, with Love, <\/em>declaring it his current read. Fleming died from a heart attack <\/a>in 1964 when he was 56.<\/p>\n “He led an incredible life,” said Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand Magazine<\/a>, a Chicago-based quarterly. “He worked for the British intelligence services. He worked for The<\/em> Sunday Times<\/em> as their foreign news editor.”<\/p>\n