John Pearson

James Bond: The Authorised Biography

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James Bond has graced our bookshelves and screens for over sixty years. The martini-drinking, super-smooth character has become an icon and international treasure. Like most of the millions of James Bond fans around the world, John Pearson assumed that the world's most famous spy was no more than a figment of Ian Fleming's highly charged imagination. Then he began to have his doubts. He finally became convinced that James Bond was not only real but alive and well in Bermuda. Thanks to a change in policy within the secret service, Pearson was invited to embark upon a companion volume to his biography of Fleming. With candour, Bond began to rec… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-906772-66-6
EAN: 9781906772666
Produktnummer: 20056333
Verlag: Ian Fleming Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 725 KB

Über den Autor

John George Pearson is a novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and of the Kray twins.Pearson was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he won a double first in history. He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming', published in 1966.Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.Pearson has also written true crime biographies, such as The Profession of Violence (The most read book in Great Britain's Prisons), an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967. Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins.Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. Pearson's story of The Gamblers has now been made into a TV series called 'Lucan' starring Michael Gambon and Christopher Eccleston, to be aired on ITV1 in two parts on 11th and 18th December 2013.Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.Pearson has also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty. Malcolm Muggeridge said, This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive.For his next three novels Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels. Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.