Casino Royale (novel) Eon Productions making the 2006 film "Casino Royale". The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond's superior, M. "Casino Royale" is a reboot, showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00-agent and overall stays true to the original novel. Casino Royale (novel) Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first "James Bond" book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and
Helen Lynd Helen Merrell met Robert Staughton Lynd while hiking Mount Washington in New Hampshire. They married in 1921. Robert Lynd died on November 1, 1970. The Lynds had two children, a son, Staughton Lynd, who became a historian and social activist, and a daughter, Andrea Merrell (Lynd) Nold. Helen Merrell began her career as an educator in New York City, but after her marriage to Robert Lynd and earning a master's degree from Columbia University, she became a sociologist, author, and college professor. In 1924 Helen and Robert Lynd moved to Muncie, Indiana, to begin an eighteen-month study of daily life