- "The Lost Symbol" is the first of his books not to start with a murder.
- His bestseller The Da Vinci Code, while his first runaway hit, and the first to be adapted into a film, is actually the second book in which Robert Langdon appears. The first is Angels and Demons.
- Author of numerous bestselling novels. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.
- Graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing.
- Wife Blythe is an art historian and painter.
- Was #10 on the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list in 2006
- Father is a math professor and mother is a musician.
- In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $10 million.
- The Da Vinci Code's Jacket Design and Plot inspired a spate of Conspiriological Novels, with their covers all showing some variation of an out-of-focus monk running through the cloisters.
- Attended college with author and friend Harlan Coben who still keeps in touch.
- In "The Lost Symbol" when Dan Brown mentions "The Gift of Fear" he is not so much citing a reliable principle of Social Science as he is dropping the title of a popular Self-Help book of the 90s.
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