Tim griffiths williams lea biography of christopher

Christopher Wood, a novelist who under the pen name Timothy Lea wrote the ribald Confessions series of novels and films and who, under his own name wrote the screenplay to the James Bond film Moonraker and cowrote The Spy Who Loved Me, died earlier this year at age His death did not become widely known until this week, following former Bond star Sir Roger Moore paying tribute to him on Twitter October

Born November 5, in London, Wood&#;s early childhood was defined by the German blitz during World War II.

Graduating from Cambridge in with degrees in economics and law, he served in the British military in Cypress, experience that would inform his later fiction work. Following the military, he became an advertising executive while trying unsuccessfully to break out as a novelist.

His break came in with the publication of Confessions of a Window Cleaner, the first in a series