
John Pearson
5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021
27 works on record
Biography
John Pearson was a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming. He was Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times and would go on to write the first biography of Ian Fleming, 1966's *The Life of Ian Fleming*. Pearson also wrote "true-crime" biographies, such as *The Profession of Violence*: an East End gang story about the rise and fall of the Kray twins.
Works

The cult of violence
2001

Painfully rich
1995

The private lives of Winston Churchill
1991

Citadel of the Heart
1991

Facades
1989

The selling of the royal family
1986

The ultimate family
1986

The serpent and the stag
1984

The Kindness of Doctor Avicenna
1981

Biggles
1980

The Bellamy saga
1976

Edward the Rake
1975

Arena: the story of the Colosseum
1973

James Bond
1973

The profession of violence
1972

The Last Hero
1966

The Life of Ian Fleming
1966

Bluebird and the Dead Lake
1965
The persuasion industry
The persuasion industry
1965

Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins

The Sitwells and the arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Marketing d'une monarchie

Todo el dinero del mundo

One of the Family
Gone to Timbuctoo
Gone to Timbuctoo

The Gamblers

Blood Royal