British novelist and travel writer Peter Fleming was born in London, England. His father was a British army officer and a Member of Parliament. He was the editor of the college newspaper at Eton and attended Christchurch College at Oxford, where he was the editor of the weekly publication "Isis". After graduating from Oxford in 1929, he got a job on the staff at "The London Evening Standard". He also worked for the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and "The Spectator", often writing under the pen name "Moth".
It was as a travel writer, however, that he is probably best known. He traveled to, and stayed for long periods in , China, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Japan and Manchuria, mostly as a correspondent for "The London Times". He served in the British army during World War II (and was, mistakenly, reported to have been killed in Norway in 1940). His one novel, "Flying Visit", was published in 1940 and was about Adolf Hitler accidentally landing in England.
He died in Black Mount, Scotland, in 1971.
