Johanna Harwood

Johanna Harwood was born in 1930 in County Wicklow, Ireland, the green birthplace of the woman who would secretly shape the first three James Bond films. She left that county for Paris, Dublin and London, doing continuity work and secretarial jobs until Harry Saltzman let her write. She co-wrote Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger, though the last credit passed her by. The bond between Wicklow and Bond is not in the stones but in the life it made: a young Irish woman carrying gunpowder and glamour into the world's imagination.