Brown spent the 1985 school year abroad in Seville, Spain, where he was enrolled in an art history course at the University of Seville. He played squash, sang in the Amherst Glee Club, and was a writing student of visiting novelist Alan Lelchuk.
Īfter graduating from Phillips Exeter, Brown attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Brown's relationship with his father inspired that of Sophie Neveu and Jacques Saunière in The Da Vinci Code, and Chapter 23 of that novel was inspired by one of his childhood treasure hunts. On Christmas, for example, Brown and his siblings did not find gifts under the tree, but followed a treasure map with codes and clues throughout their house and even around town to find the gifts. The young Brown spent hours working out anagrams and crossword puzzles, and he and his siblings participated in elaborate treasure hunts devised by their father on birthdays and holidays. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'" īrown's interest in secrets and puzzles stems from their presence in his household as a child, where codes and ciphers were the linchpin tying together the mathematics, music, and languages in which his parents worked. The further you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers.
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"The irony is that I've really come full circle. When asked in the same interview about his then-current religious views, Brown replied: Science makes much more sense to me.' And I just gravitated away from religion." Which is right?' Unfortunately, the response I got was, 'Nice boys don't ask that question.' A light went off, and I said, 'The Bible doesn't make sense. I read a book that said there was an explosion known as the Big Bang, but here it says God created heaven and Earth and the animals in seven days. I remember saying to a minister, 'I don't get it. Then, in eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe.
"I was raised Episcopalian, and I was very religious as a kid. Brown was raised an Episcopalian, and described his religious evolution in a 2009 interview:
His mother, Constance (née Gerhard), trained as a church organist and student of sacred music. Brown, was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks from 1968 until his retirement in 1997. He grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, Richard G. Brown attended Exeter's public schools until the ninth grade. He has a younger sister, Valerie (born 1968) and brother, Gregory (born 1974).
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He claims that his book The Da Vinci Code is simply "an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate" and suggests that the book may be used "as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith." ĭaniel Gerhard Brown was born on June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian and he is on a "constant spiritual journey" himself. The Robert Langdon novels are deeply engaged with Christian themes and historical fiction, and have generated controversy as a result. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adapted into films. His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies. They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His novels are treasure hunts which usually take place over a period of 24 hours. Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and Origin (2017).
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