It’s the birthday of the ornithologist James Bond, ... born on this day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1900). He was the leading expert on birds of the Caribbean, and his book Birds of the West Indies (1936) is still in print today.More about the inspirations for James Bond can be found here.
The novelist Ian Fleming was an enthusiastic bird-watcher, and he was living in Jamaica and came across a copy of Birds of the West Indies. Fleming was writing a thriller and decided to use the name James Bond for the protagonist, agent 007. That thriller was Casino Royale (1953), the first of Fleming’s 12 James Bond novels.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Born on the Fourth of January
From today’s edition of The Writer’s Almanac:
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