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Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was much like his fictional character. Fleming was a spy, a notorious womanizer and he liked his martinis shaken, not stirred.

Part of the British aristocracy, he was a journalist, a banker and a military man who finally wrote his first novel at age 43. Over the next 11 years, he wrote 13 Bond novels and the children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Once translated to the silver screen, James Bond launched the world's longest running series of movies. Forty years and 5 actors later, James Bond is the world's best-known spy.