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Dan Brown Bio

Dan BrownDan Brown, best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code was born on June 22, 1964.

He grew up in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, a Presidential Award winning math professor, taught for 35 years. Then, he matriculated to Amherst College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, graduating in 1986. Brown later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a composer and musician without great success. He subsequently traveled to Seville where he studied art history.

In 1993 he returned to New Hampshire and a teaching job at his old school. In 1995 Dan Brown and his wife, Blythe, an art historian, wrote 187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman. The following year Brown became a full-time writer. He published his first thriller, Digital Fortress, in 1998.¹

(¹ Ace's Bio-Farm.)

Dan Brown Quote

"Until I graduated from college, I had read almost no modern commercial fiction at all (having focused primarily on the "classics" in school). In 1994, while vacationing in Tahiti, I found an old copy of Sydney Sheldon's Doomsday Conspiracy on the beach. I read the first page...and then the next...and then the next. Several hours later, I finished the book and thought, Hey, I can do that. Upon my return, I began work on my first novel - Digital Fortress - which was published in 1996."

Novels by Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress: A Thriller.

Authors

David Baldacci Lee Child Michael Connelly Patricia Cornwell Michael Crichton Clive Cussler Nelson DeMille Janet Evanovich Ken Follett Sue Grafton John Grisham Carl Hiaasen Dean Koontz Ed McBain Robert Parker James Patterson Nora Roberts John Sandford

BOOKS

Literature & Fiction Mystery & Thrillers