James Bond Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories. After a gap of six years, Sebastian Faulks was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth. The book—titled "Devil May Care"—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US. American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce "Carte Blanche", which was published on 26 May 2011. The book updated Bond into a post-9/11 agent, independent of MI5 or MI6. On 26 September 2013 "Solo", written
James Boyd (novelist) James Boyd (novelist) James Boyd (July 2, 1888 – February 25, 1944) was an American novelist, most famous for his Revolutionary War novel "Drums," which was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Boyd was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, into a wealthy coal and oil family. He was the son of John Yeomans Boyd and Eleanor Gilmore Herr Boyd, who were from North Carolina. He attended The Hill School. He attended Princeton University where he wrote verse and fiction for the "Tiger" and was its managing editor in his senior year. After graduation in 1910, he studied at Trinity College and Cambridge.