purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. Īnother of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson.
Pearson had also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967. Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966. He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history. Address: c/o Peters Fraser Dunlop, 34 Russell St, London WC2B 5MA, England.John George Pearson (5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) was an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), of the Sitwells, and of the Kray twins. Paul Getty and His Heirs, 1995 Blood Royal: The Spencers and the Royals, 1999 The Cult of Violence, 2001.
Avicenna, 1982 Stags and Serpents: The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire, 1983 The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor, 1986 The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy, 1986 The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, 1991 Painfully Rich: J. Turner) The Persuasion Industry, 1965 Bluebird and the Dead Lake, 1965 The Life of Ian Fleming, 1966 The Colosseum, 1968 The Life of James Bond, 1970 The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins, 1972, 3rd ed., 1984 Edward the Rake, 1974 The Life of Biggles, 1975 Facades. Publications: Gone to Timbuctoo (novel), 1961 (with G. Previously worked for The Times, The Sunday Times (as staff reporter, columnist, and feature writer), and for BBC Television (as scriptwriter).
Genres: Novels, Biography, Documentaries/Reportage.
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