He was followed by novelist and biographer John Pearson, who wrote a fictional biography of Bond. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of Robert Markham, who produced one novel.
Some of these have been novelisations of episodes in the series of James Bond films, produced by Eon Productions, while others were either continuation novels or short stories.
Since Fleming's death, other authors have written continuation works. Two of the books were published after Fleming's death in 1964. Fleming wrote twelve novels and two collections of short stories in the series, all at his Jamaican home Goldeneye and published annually. The character first appeared in his 1953 novel Casino Royale the books are set in a contemporary period during Fleming's lifetime from 1951 to 1964. The protagonist of the series, James Bond, is a British Secret Service agent, often referred to by his code name 007.
James Bond is a literary franchise comprising a series of novels and short stories, first published in 1953 by Ian Fleming, a British author, journalist, and former naval intelligence officer.
