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Kingsley Amis: James Bond
Kingsley Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's creation, James Bond, in the 1960s, writing critical works connected with the fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. He wrote the popular The James Bond Dossier
under his own name. Later, he wrote, The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek, how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy, under the pseudonym "Lt. Col. William 'Bill' Tanner", Tanner being M's Chief of Staff in many of Fleming's Bond novels.
It is widely claimed that, after Fleming died in 1964 following completion of an early draft of The Man with the Golden Gun, the publisher commissioned Amis and possibly other writers to finalize the manuscript. Bond historians and Fleming biographers have, in recent years, debunked this long-time theory, indicating that no such ghostwriter was ever employed. (see here for more on the controversy and speculation)
In 1968, the owners of the James Bond property, Glidrose Publications, attempted to continue the literary series by hiring different novelists, all writing under the pseudonym "Robert Markham." Kingsley Amis was the first to write a Robert Markham novel, Colonel Sun
, but no further Markham imprint books were published. It is widely believed that Amis had planned to write a second Bond novel after Colonel Sun, but was talked out of it.
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