Fleming had the perfect background for his creation: educated at English public school, European language academies, and a junior reporting job at Reuters news agency.
The article compared Fleming unfavourably with and Raymond Chandler on both moral and literary criteria.
After Ann Charteris's first husband died in the war, she expected to marry Fleming, but he decided to remain a bachelor.
In October 1947, he was awarded the for his contribution in assisting Danish officers escaping from Denmark to Britain during the occupation of Denmark.
He did, however, excel at track and won two awards.
After improving his language skills there, he studied briefly at and the.