Biography

Dan Brown is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code -- one of the best selling novels of all time. In early 2004, all four of Dan Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.

Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine, Dan Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.

Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown’s follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology.

The son of a Presidential Award winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Dan grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his acclaimed novel Angels & Demons—a science vs. religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City. Recently, he has begun work on a series of symbology thrillers featuring his popular protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of iconography and religious art. The upcoming series will include books set in Paris, London, and Washington D.C.

Dan’s wife Blythe—an art history buff and painter—collaborates on his research and accompanies him on his frequent research trips, their latest to Paris, where they spent time in the Louvre for his thriller, The Da Vinci Code.

The Da Vinci Code has sold some 70 million copies worldwide and is now being adapted for film by Columbia Pictures. (read less)

Dan Brown is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code -- one of the best selling novels of all time. In early 2004, all four of Dan Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.

Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine, Dan Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.

Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown’s follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of moral... (read more)

Genre: Thrillers, Fiction, Mystery
Birth Date: June 22, 1964
Birth Place: Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
Website: http://www.danbrown.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown

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125 people
3.9 stars
chuyeow
chuyeow wrote and rated
  • 5.0 of 5 stars
on Jun 9, 2008 at 10:51 pm

I don't care what anyone says - this is one of the few books that I can truly call a page-turner that I've ever read.

125 people
3.9 stars
Pincuk
Pincuk wrote
on Feb 11, 2008 at 11:41 pm

i've read da vinci code last year...
i think it's a good book, i can feel the mystery Dan Brown wrote...
I especially interest in the way he "serve" a complicated story become a very-easy-reading-book, The way he tell what is Priory of sion actually is,
yeah, i really like Da vinci Code

2 people
4.0 stars
readingrat
readingrat wrote and rated
  • 4.0 of 5 stars
on Jan 4, 2008 at 11:41 am

No one does on-the-edge-of-your-seat thrills like Dan Brown.

67 people
3.8 stars
gewurztraminer
gewurztraminer wrote and rated
  • 1.0 of 5 stars
on Nov 14, 2007 at 6:10 am

As with The Da Vinci Code, too short and not enough original research.

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