
religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City.
These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his bestselling novel Angels & Demonsa science vs. The son of a Presidential Award-winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Brown grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. Brown's follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook.

His novels have been translated and published in more than 48 languages around the world.īrown is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In early 2004, all four of Dan Brown's novels held spots on the New York Times bestseller list during the same week.īrown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others.

DAN BROWN is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Codeone of the best selling novels of all time.
