Dan Brown Facts
Dan Brown Facts
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| Dan Brown attended Amherst College, graduating in 1989. |
| Dan wanted to be a singer and songwriter after graduating from Amherst College but he wasn't overly successful. |
| Dan Brown moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and taught Spanish at Beverly Hills Prep School. |
| Dan Brown joined the National Academy of Songwriters and met Blythe Newlon, a woman that helped promote his music career. |
| Dan Brown released four music CDs which gained him backers for his music, but his reclusive nature proved to stagnate his music career. |
| Dan brown returned to New England and Blythe Newlon went with him. They would eventually marry in 1997. |
| Dan taught English as Phillips Exeter, the same school he attended as a child. He also taught Spanish at Lincoln Akerman School. |
| In 1993 Dan Brown became inspired to write thriller novels. Digital Fortress was released in 1998. It was his first published thriller. |
| Dan Brown's books are well-researched and often include conspiracies, secrets, symbols, puzzles of sorts, and mysteries. |
| Angels and Demons was published in 2000, followed by Deception Point in 2001. |
| Although Dan Brown's first three novels were modestly successful, when The Da Vinci Code was released her became a top-selling novelist world-wide. |
| The Da Vinci Code was translated into more than 40 different languages. |
| Some members of the Catholic Church thought that The Da Vinci Code was anti-Christian. |
| Ron Howard directed the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. It was released in 2006 and met with great success. |
| Angels and Demons was adapted into film and released in 2009. Tom Hanks again played the starring role of Robert Langdon. |
| In 2009 Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol was released. More than one million copies sold the day it was released. The Lost Symbol's main character was Robert Langdon. |
| Inferno, Dan Brown's latest novel was published in 2013 again features Robert Langdon as he tries to unravel Dante's Inferno's secrets, amidst symbols, codes, and a riddle that could forever alter the world. |
| Dan Brown wrote a book under the name Danielle Brown in 1995, co-written with his wife titled 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman. He also co-wrote The Bald Book with his wife in 1998. |
| Dan Brown was unsuccessfully sued by another author in 2005, and his publisher Random House successfully defended themselves in a copyright infringement case brought on by authors of a non-fiction book about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. |
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