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Ian Fleming is without a doubt the writer who lays claim to James Bond. Fleming invented him, after all. But that doesn’t mean other famous writers haven’t had a hand in crafting the character over the years. Fleming died in 1964, just a few months before The Man with the Golden Gun was published. Kingsley Amis, under the pseudonymn Robert Markham, stepped in to write the first non-Fleming Bond book, 1968’s Colonel Sun. Roald Dahl, of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame, wrote the script for You Only Live Twice — though he ignored the plot of the Fleming novel of the same name.

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