John Pearson
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 (24)

The profession of violence
1972

Painfully rich
1995

James Bond
1973

Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins

The selling of the royal family
1986

The Life of Ian Fleming
1966

Blood Royal

The serpent and the stag
1984

Facades
1989

The ultimate family
1986

The cult of violence
2001

The Gamblers

Biggles
1980

Citadel of the Heart
1991

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

The Bellamy saga
1976

Bluebird and the Dead Lake
1965

One of the Family

Marketing d'une monarchie

The Last Hero
1966

The Kindness of Doctor Avicenna
1981

Edward the Rake
1975

The private lives of Winston Churchill
1991

Arena: the story of the Colosseum
1973