Dan Brown is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including
the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. He 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, Dan’s 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 historian 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
new thriller, The Da Vinci Code.
In its first week on sale, The Da Vinci Code achieved unprecedented
success when it debuted at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list,
simultaneously topping bestseller lists at The Wall Street Journal,
Publishers Weekly, and San Francisco Chronicle. Later, the book
went on to hit #1 on virtually every major national bestseller list.
Dan Brown's novels have been translated and published around the
world. He is currently at work on another book. This biography was
last updated on 11/01/2001. Unless otherwise stated, it was provided
by the author's publisher or publicist.
