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Dan Brown
Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy…
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Born 22 June 1964 · Q7345
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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. Robert Langdon
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Awarded Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer (2005).
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Cook Islands election: PM Mark Brown speaks on the diplomatic crises that defined his year
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Stephen Rubin, book publisher for John Grisham and Dan Brown, dead at 81
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2022· 2 entries
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 Brown writing the screenplay and songs, and Akiva
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Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,816 times.
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2021· 1 entry
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
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made for a thriller plot
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The Guardian: Dan Brown announces debut picture book – soundtracked by the author
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,037 times.
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After 22 years of marriage, Brown and his wife acrimoniously divorced due to his alleged infidelities during the latter part of their marriage
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown on Trump: 'Reality has surpassed fiction'
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The Guardian: 4am starts and spinach smoothies: Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on how to write a bestseller
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2017· 4 entries
The Guardian: Dan Brown's Origin makes a strong start in UK bookshops
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The Guardian: Robert Langdon in Catalonia: Dan Brown’s Origin picks bad day to launch
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The Guardian: Frankfurt book fair: Atwood and Brown to star at politically charged event
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In London, another claim was begun against Brown by Jack Dunn who claimed that justice was not served in the U
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2016· 2 entries
Brown donated US$337,000 to the Ritman Library in Amsterdam to digitize a collection of ancient books
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2014· 1 entry
To produce a television series based on Digital Fortress, written by Josh Goldin and Rachel Abramowitz
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2011· 1 entry
Dan and his wife, Blythe Newlon Brown, created an eponymous scholarship fund to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his graduation from Amherst College
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)” in Genome Biology — cited 17,939 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Brown's publisher, Random House, won an appeal copyright infringement case
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Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,004 times.
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2006· 2 entries
Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code was released as a film by Columbia Pictures, with director Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks
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“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. Robert Langdon”
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer (2005).
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Crimezone Thriller Awards (2004).
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“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”
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All four of his novels were on the New York Times list in the same week, and in 2005 he made Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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2000· 2 entries
Published “Molecular portraits of human breast tumours” in Nature — cited 12,748 times.
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And 2001 respectively, the former of which was the first to feature the lead character, Harvard symbology expert Robert Langdon
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 12,441 times.
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1997· 1 entry
At Pea Porridge Pond, near Conway, New Hampshire
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1996· 1 entry
Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer
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1994· 1 entry
Brown released a CD titled Angels & Demons
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1993· 1 entry
Brown read Sidney Sheldon's novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, and was inspired to become a writer of thrillers
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1991· 1 entry
Moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as singer-songwriter and pianist
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1990· 1 entry
Self-published a CD entitled Perspective, targeted to the adult market, which also sold a few hundred copies
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1980· 1 entry
Spent the summer learning Spanish in Gijón (Spain), while living with a Spanish family
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1964· 2 entries
Born 1964-06-22.
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“The Christian Post (24 Oct 2017) == Quotes about Dan Brown == Alphabetized by author Dan Brown has to be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished writers in the country. The Da Vinci Code is many notches above the intelligent thriller; this is pure genius. Nelson DeMille in a promotional blurb at Doubleday The world of publishing is in crisis. It”
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