hardback edition: 1974 William Morrow & Company UK first paperback edition: 1975 Pan Books U.S. first paperback edition: March 1975 Pyramid Books UK hardcover reprint: 1985 Granada UK paperback reprint: 1986 Grafton U.S. paperback reprint: 1986 Grove Press Out of print since the 1990s, a reprinting of the book was released in 2008. The reprint shortens the book's title to James Bond: The Authorised Biography. Reception The novel's canonical status as biography is debatable. Some fans consider it canon with Ian Fleming's James Bond novel series, while other aficionados consider it apocryphal. Elements of the biography are contradicted by "official" Bond fiction, notably Charlie Higson's Young Bond series, which suggests that James Bond was born in Switzerland, as opposed to Pearson's suggestion that Bond was born in Wattenscheid, Germany. Unlike the later Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson, which are not of (although still based upon) Fleming's continuity, such is not the case with Pearson's book, along with the continuation novel Colonel Sun, by Kingsley Amis, (to which Pearson refers). As those books occur in the same time as Fleming's Bond novels, their being canonical with Fleming's books is debatable, yet Pan Books, one British publisher of Bond novels, includes Pearson's book, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, as an official series entry of their first paperback edition series. See also Outline of James Bond Notes External links A look at the least known James Bond novel Origins of The Authorized Biography of 007 1973 British novels James Bond books Metafictional novels Sidgwick & Jackson books