Phyllis BottomePhyllis Forbes Dennis (1884 - 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. In 1924 she and her husband started a school in Kitzbuhel in Austria. Based on the teaching of languages, the school wa intended to be a community and an educational laboratory to determine how psychology and educational theory could cure the ills of nations. One of their more famous pupils was Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels. In 1960, Fleming wrote to Bottome, "My life with you both is one of my most cherished memories, and heaven knows where I should be today without Ernan." It has been argued that Fleming took the idea of James Bond from the character Mark Chalmers in Bottome's spy novel The Lifeline. Read More Read Less