28 Facts About Dan Brown

Dan Brown's novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a period of 24 hours.

Dan Brown's books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies.

Daniel Gerhard Brown was born on June 22,1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Dan Brown grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, Richard G Brown, was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks from 1968 until his retirement in 1997.

Dan Brown was raised an Episcopalian, and described his religious evolution in a 2009 interview:.

The young Dan Brown spent hours working out anagrams and crossword puzzles, and he and his siblings participated in elaborate treasure hunts devised by their father on birthdays and holidays.

Dan Brown played squash, sang in the Amherst Glee Club, and was a writing student of visiting novelist Alan Lelchuk.

Dan Brown spent the 1985 school year abroad in Seville, Spain, where he was enrolled in an art history course at the University of Seville.

Dan Brown then formed his own record company called Dalliance, and in 1990 self-published a CD entitled Perspective, targeted to the adult market, which sold a few hundred copies.

Dan Brown joined the National Academy of Songwriters and participated in many of its events.

Dan Brown has written a symphonic work titled Wild Symphony which is supplemented by a book of the same name.

On March 30,2022, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Weed Road Pictures will turn Wild Symphony into an animated musical feature film in the vein of Walt Disney's Fantasia, with Dan Brown writing the screenplay and songs, and Akiva Goldsman producing.

Dan Brown started work on Digital Fortress, setting much of it in Seville, where he had studied in 1985.

Dan Brown co-wrote a humor book with his wife, 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman, under the pseudonym "Danielle Brown".

In 1996 Dan Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer.

Dan Brown has adopted a relevant theme in some of his earlier work.

Dan Brown's fourth novel featuring Robert Langdon, Inferno is a mystery thriller novel released on May 14,2013, by Doubleday.

Characters in Dan Brown's books are often named after real people in his life.

Dan Brown said that characters were based on a New Hampshire librarian, and a French teacher at Exeter, Andre Vernet.

In interviews, Dan Brown has said his wife, Blythe, is an art historian and painter.

Dan Brown's work is heavily influenced by academic Joseph Campbell, who wrote extensively on mythology and religion and was highly influential in the field of screenwriting.

Dan Brown told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block.

Dan Brown uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective".

Dan Brown apparently alluded to the two authors' names in his book.

On June 16,2016, Dan Brown donated US$337,000 to the Ritman Library in Amsterdam to digitize a collection of ancient books.

Dan Brown was listed as one of the executive producers of the film The Da Vinci Code, and created additional codes for the film.

One of his songs, "Phiano", which Dan Brown wrote and performed, was listed as part of the film's soundtrack.

In 2021, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol was adapted into a television series repositioned as an origin story for Brown's Robert Langdon character with Ashley Zukerman playing Langdon.