Dan Brown

Dan Brown (born the June 22nd 1964 with Exeter, New Hampshire) is a American author of detective novels. He caused the polemic because of the publication of two works considered by most of the public opinion as " antichrétiens" , Angels and demons and the Da Vinci Code .

Passed

Dan Brown was born and was high in the town of Exeter located in the State of the New Hampshire at the the United States. It is the elder one of a family of three children.

His/her mother, Constance (Connie) was professional musician and played of the organ to the church. His/her father, Richard was a large mathematics professor as well as the author of handbooks. He taught with the academy Philips Exeter of 1968 until his retirement in 1997.

The academy Philips Exeter is a élitiste boarding school which obliges the new professors to live on the campus during a few years. For this reason, Brown were high in this school. The social environment of Exeter was mainly episcopal. Dan Brown sang in the choral society of the church, attended the school of Sunday and spent the summers in a religious camp. Its school course started in a public school in the town of Exeter until in third. It is at this period that it integrated the school Philips Exeter as his/her sister and her brother did it later.

Author and interprets the pop one

After having obtained its diploma of the academy Philips Exeter in 1982, Dan Brown studied in the college Amherst where he was member of the brotherhood Psi Upsilon. He played squash and sang in the choral society of Amherst. It follow-up courses exempted by the author of novels Alan Lelchuk.

Dan Brown obtained a diploma of Amherst with a double specialization in Spanish and English in 1986, then directed himself towards a musical career, creating effects with a Synthétiseur, and by producing a cassette for the children entitled SynthAnimals which contains a collection of songs such as “happy frogs” and the “elephants of Suzuki”. It sold a few hundreds of copies of them. It then formed its own recording company called Dalliance, and in 1990 it produces a CD being entitled Perspective , aiming at the market of the adults. It also sold a few hundreds of copies of them. In 1991, it moved with Hollywood to continue a career like Parolier and Pianiste. To support itself, he taught in the preparatory classes of the school of Beverly Hills.

While it was with Los Angeles, it joined the National Academy lyric writers and took part in several events. It was there that it met Blythe Newlon, a 12 year old woman her elder, who was the director of the academy of the artistic development. However, not forming officially part of its work, it helped Dan Brown to promote her various projects. She wrote press releases, organized promotional events, and put it in liaison with the individuals who could be useful to his career. It and Dan Brown became intimate, although this was not known of all their associates until in 1993, when Dan Brown turned over again to the New Hampshire, and that one learned that Blythe would accompany it. They married in 1997, with the pond of Pea Porridge located close to North Conway at New Hampshire.

While helping its career of singer, Blythe also had an important influence on the career of Dan Brown as an author, because it was implied in most of the promotion of its books. It has coécrit two of its books which were written under pseudonyms, and there are some rumors concerning the fact that it could as well help it in the writing of other books. In the thanks of the book Disappointment Not , Dan Brown thanked “Blythe Brown for her tireless research and its creative contributions. ”

In 1993, Dan Brown left her CD éponyme Dan Brown , which included songs such as “976-Coils” and “Yew you believe in Coils”.

Professor with the England news

DaN and Blythe moved in its birthplace with the New Hampshire in 1993. Dan Brown becomes English professor in her university, Exeter Philips. It gave also courses of Spanish in a small school, Lincoln Akerman, with approximately 250 pupils, in Hampton Falls.

In 1994, Dan Brown left CD entitled Angels & demons , in French Anges and demons . This work was signed by John Langdon whom it employed later for the Romance '' Anges and demons ''. In the notes of information, it credited his wife for her participation, thanking it “to be my tireless joint author, my coproducer, my second engineer, my partner, and my therapeutist. ”

This CD contains songs like “Young stag in thesis fields” and religious “All I trotts it believe”. It started to work on Digital Forteresse , and coécrit also a book with his wife, 187 Men to avoid: With guide for the Romantically frustated woman , under the pseudonym of Danielle Brown (one of the 187 articles in the book was “men who cleans of the books for women”). The profile of the author of the book says this, “Danielle Brown currently lives in England News: teaching at the school, writing books, and avoiding the hommes." However, Dan Brown appears in the copyright. It sold a few thousands of copies of them before being exhausted.

Writer

In 1996, Dan Brown stopped teaching to become full-time author. Digital Forteresse was published in 1998. Blythe made most of the promotion of the book, writing press releases, holding shows televised for Dan Brown, and organizing interviews for the press. A few months later, Dan Brown and his wife published The bald book . It was officially credited with his wife, however one representing of the editor acknowledged that it was mainly written by Dan Brown. The first three novels of Dan Brown had little success, with less: 10000 copies for their first edition. But the fourth novel, the Da Vinci Code , became a Best-seller, going until being on the top of the list of best-seller of NewYork Times during its first week of exit in 2003. It is now credited to be one of the most popular books of all times with 60,5 million copies sold in the whole world until in 2006. Its success started again the sale of the preceding books of Dan Brown. In 2004, each of the four novels of Dan Brown were on the list of the best-sellers of the NewYork Times the same week, and in 2005, Dan Brown made her appearance in the magazine Time where it integrated the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Forbes stores placed Dan Brown at the twelfth places classification of the 100 celebrities of the year 2005, and estimated its annual income at 76,5 million dollars. The Times estimated its income of the sales of the Da Vinci Code at approximately 250 million dollars.

In October 2004, Dan Brown and her family made gift of 2 million dollars to the academy Philips d' Exeter in the honor of their father, to install the “technological equipment of Richard G. Brown” to help “to provide computers and other equipment of point for the students in the need”.

Dan Brown is interested in the Cryptographie, the keys and the codes, which are a topic scouring in its stories. Currently its novels were translated in more than 40 languages.

In 2006, the novel of Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code was adapted out of film by Columbia Pictures, under the direction of Ron Howard. The first role, Robert Langdon, was interpreted by Tom Hanks, Sophie Neveu was incarnated by Audrey Tautou and Leigh Teabing was interpreted by Ian McKellen. One regarded it as one of the most awaited films year, and was used to open the festival of the film 2006 in Cannes, although it received bad criticisms. It was enumerated later like one of worst films of 2006, but also like second film having brought back the most money of the year with an income of 750 million dollars. The scenario writer Akiva Goldsman was selected to adapt Anges and demons . The fact that Ron Howard will direct the project is not yet given.

Dan Brown appeared with the credits as a one of the executive producers of the film Da Vinci Code, and also created additional codes for film. One of its songs, “piano”, that Dan Brown wrote and played, belonged to the soundtrack of film.

Case of violation of the royalties

The March 28th 2007, Dan Brown gained her lawsuit concerning her royalties. The Court of Appeal of Great Britain refused the applications of two authors who protested that Dan Brown had stolen their ideas to write the Da Vinci Code . Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, which wrote The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail proposed the fact that Dan Brown had stolen the principal ideas of their book. Both were based on a theory in which Jesus and Marie Madeleine married itself and had a child, and that the line continues to date. Baigent and Leigh will have to pay the legal expenditure which rises to approximately 6 million dollars.

Works

CDs

Dan Brown , 1993, DBG Records (including the songs “976-Coils” and “Yew you believe in Coils”).

Details and anecdotes

Its best-seller the Da Vinci Code was its first success and became the first novel of Dan Brown to being adapted out of film. However, it is the second book in which Robert Langdon appears. First is Anges and demons for which a film adaptation is planned.
the fictitious school where Langdon made its studies is the academy Philips Exeter, the same school that Dan Brown attended.
the characters of the books of Dan Brown are often baptized according to the name of true people belonging to her life. Robert Langdon is baptized name of John Langdon, the artist who created the figures used for Anges and demons . The cardinal Carlo Ventresca is baptized name of a friend, director of cartoons Carla Ventresca. In the files of the Vatican, Langdon recalls the marriage of two people called Dick and Connie, which are the names of his/her parents. The editor of Robert Langdon, Jonas Faukman, is baptized name of the true editor of Dan Brown, Jason Kaufman. Leigh Teabing was named thus after the authors Leigh and Baigent (“Teabing” is an anagram of “Baigent”) wrote The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail which uses the same history (whereby still today the line of Jesus and Marie Madeleine exists). Dan Brown also acknowledged that characters took the name of a librarian of the New Hampshire, and of a French professor with Exeter, André Vernet.
In a report/ratio with the test in March 2006, Dan Brown wrote that while it grew, in the birthdays and Christmas, him and his family took part in treasure hunts worked out to find their gifts hidden while following the indices and the codes which them father had left. It is the same event that it described for the childhood of a character of Da Vinci Code.
Dan Brown plays Tennis, and written in its loft, it is lifted regularly to a height of 4 hours of the morning to work. It keeps an ancient sand glass on its desk to remember to take pauses.
Dan Brown said to her fans that it employs the therapy of inversion to contribute it vis-a-vis to the phenomenon of the white page. It employs initializations of gravity and known as: “to hang to back seems to help me to solve the challenges of the intrigue by entirely changing my vision of the things”.
There is a short appearance of Dan Brown and his wife in the film Cool Be of 2005, in the line before assistance with the concert of Aerosmith.
Although many people protest that the books of Dan Brown such as Da Vinci Code are perceived like anti-Christians, Dan Brown describes itself as a Christian who says that the polemic is good to inspire the “discussion and the debate” which will lead finally to a faith more firmly defended.
In the version of film of Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown and his wife can be seen in the background at the beginning of one of the scenes of dedications.

Discussed claims

In the interviews, Dan Brown indicated that his wife is a “historian of art” and “painter” although there is no trace of her having worked in these fields. When they met, it was the director of the artistic development to the national academy for the lyric writers in Los Angeles. However, during the lawsuit concerning the royalties of the Da Vinci Code in 2006, the information was presented which proved that Blythe indeed did much research for the book.

In the Quatrième of cover of its works Dan Brown also indicates to have taught the Histoire of art whereas he would have only taught the languages (English and Spanish).

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