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Dan Brown Bio
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Dan BrownAlthough he has authored several novels and other written works, Dan Brown is especially renowned for one particular novel: his super successful and bestselling and highly controversial work, The Da Vinci Code, released in 2003. Other little known facts about Dan are that he was also an English teacher and musician before he became a professional writer and author.
Dan Brown was born in New Hampshire in 1964, to Constance and Richard G. Brown, and was raised in a mostly Christian home and Christian environment.
He attended the Phillips Exeter Academy boarding school for his high-school years, where his father was a mathematics teacher and curriculum developer, and later, in the early to mid-1990s, became an English teacher at the same school.
Around the same time, Dan also began releasing albums as a musician. SynthAnimals, a children’s album, was his first, before Perspective in 1990 (Dalliance); Dan Brown in 1993 (DBG Records); and Angels & Demons (1995, also with DBG Records).
The latter album included artwork by famous artist John Langdon and included the hits "All I Believe" as well as "Here in These Fields." That same year (1995), Dan decided to write and publish his first written work—a mildly successful humor-based book entitled 187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman, which he co-wrote with his wife, Blythe Brown, with the pseudonym "Danielle Brown" as the author.
The following year, Dan quit his day job as an English teacher, and as a Spanish teacher at Lincoln Akerman School, to become a full-time writer. In 1998, he released his first published novel, Digital Fortress, which was reportedly an effort to write a better book than established author Sidney Sheldon’s The Doomsday Conspiracy. What followed was the humor book The Bald Book (1998, also co-written with Blythe); and the novels Angels and Demons (2000, based on his album), and Deception Point (2001), all of which were only relatively successful.
However, it wasn’t until the 2003 release of The Da Vinci Code that Dan Brown received almost instant success and popularity and status as a recognized author. The novel became an immediate bestseller and within a week of its release, made the coveted top of the New York Times Best Seller list. Although it has been the recipient of much controversy and critical reviews, The Da Vinci Code is generally considered to be one of the most popular books written ever, selling more than 60 million copies around the world in just three years.
The success of Dan’s book propelled the release of the movie by the same name in 2006, which was directed by Ron Howard and featured a stellar cast including Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, and Paul Bettany, but was not as successful at the box office as anticipated by book fans as well as critics.
Dan Brown is hoping to adapt his novel Angels and Demons into a film through screenwriter Akiva Goldsman with a possibility of direction from Ron Howard. Another project in the making is Dan’s new and upcoming novel The Solomon Key, set for release in 2007. YUDDY |
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Dan Brown - Wrote the 'Da Vinci Code' the film of which was directed by Ron Howard . |
Dan Brown - Wrote 'The Da Vinci Code' which starred Tom Hanks .
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Dan Brown - Wrote 'The Da Vinci Code' which starred Ian McKellen . |
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Dan Brown - James Patterson has penned more number 1 best sellers in the past 5 years than Dan Brown. |
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