Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A Note About the Author

Born in England in 1908, and educated at Eton, Sandhurst, the University of Geneva, and the University of Munich, the late Ian Fleming mastered two languages in addition to English—French and German. In 1929, he joined Reuters News Service and was based in London, Berlin, and then Moscow. Following his newspaper work, Mr. Fleming spent two years with a merchant bankers firm and four years with a stock brokerage house. In World War II, he spent a number of years in Intelligence Service, a job which amply qualified him for writing his best-selling spy thrillers about superspy, James Bond.

After the war, Mr. Fleming went back to writing. He became foreign manager for The Sunday Times of London, Vice President for Europe of the North American Newspaper Alliance, and foreign manager for the Kemsely Newspapers.