Dan Brown is an American author of thriller fiction and best known for his 2003 best selling novel The Da Vinci Code. His novels feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols and codes, and have been translated into over 51 languages. Brown’s novels that feature the lead character Robert Langdon also include historical themes and Christianity as recurring motifs, and as a result have generated much controversy. There is no information available on Dan Brown being Illuminati.
In 1994, he read Sidney Sheldon’s The Doomsday Conspiracy and decided that he could do better. He started work on Digital Fortress and co-wrote a humor book with his wife under the pseudonym “Danielle Brown”. In 1996, Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer. Digital Fortress was published in 1998.
Characters in Brown’s books are often named after real people in his life. Robert Langdon is named after John Langdon, the artist who created the ambigrams used for the Angels & Demons CD and novel. Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca is named after “On A Claire Day”, cartoonist friend Carla Ventresca. In the Vatican Archives, Langdon recalls a wedding of two people named Dick and Connie, which are the names of his parents. Brown has also said that characters were based on a New Hampshire librarian, and a French teacher at Exeter, Andre Vernet. Cardinal Aldo Baggia, in Angels & Demons is named after Aldo Baggia, instructor of modern languages at Phillips Exeter Academy.
If you are looking for The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, there a numerous online websites like Amazon.com that has the book in stock. Other Dan Brown novels can be purchased at other online outlets along with Dan Brown audio books. The Lost Symbol is a Dan Brown audio book and can also be purchased online.
Dan Brown novels are also available on his website, www.danbrown.com. At this time it features The Lost Symbol, which is due to be released September 15, 2009. If you have not read any of Dan Brown’s work, take some time to read the Da Vinci Code. It is well worth it!
