 In Ian Fleming 's stories , James Bond is in his mid @-@ to @-@ late thirties , but does not age . In Moonraker , he admits to being eight years shy of mandatory retirement age from the 00 section — 45 — which would mean he was 37 at the time . Fleming did not provide Bond 's date of birth , but John Pearson 's fictional biography of Bond , James Bond : The Authorized Biography of 007 , gives him a birth date of 11 November 1920 , while a study by Bond scholar John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921 . According to Griswold , the Fleming novels take place between around May 1951 , to February 1964 , by which time Bond was aged 42 . 
