Ian Fleming

In the immediate aftermath of this affair RL was briefly and with varying degrees of seriousness involved with several other men, including one who wanted to marry her, one (Ian Fleming of James Bond...

ELV allegedly had a fleeting affair in Italy or London in 1895 or 1896 with the legendary spy Sigmund Rosenblum , then known as Sidney Reilly. A decade younger...

At this time Ernst was leading member of the Surrealist movement and identified by André Breton as the most magnificently haunted brain of our times. He was also married. Twenty-six years younger than Ernst,...

In China EKM met the French thinker Teilhard de Chardin . She also encountered, at Harbin in Manchuria, an English traveller and writer whom she had briefly met: Peter Fleming , then on commission...

Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went...

Savkar Altinel in the Times Literary Supplement was highly critical of this novel, but the following year Patricia Craig , in the same journal, was more appreciative, crediting ZF with a sure touch with...

Recurrent topics here are deaths of children, mysterious houses, unacknowledged effects of the past on the present. In the title story the rare bird speaks of a garden it has known for hundreds of years...

MS was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving. She thought her...