2. BACKGROUND
- Dan Brown was born on June 22, 1964.
- He was raides in New Hampshire and was the
oldest of three siblings.
- He was fixated on puzzles when he was growing
up, which can explain the novels he has written.
- He graduated from Phillips Exeter, then
attended Amherst College.

3. LIST OF DAN BROWN NOVELS
- Digital Fortress
- Angels & Demons
- Deception Point
- The Da Vince Code
- The Lost Symbol

4. THE CHARACTER OF ROBERT LANGDON
- His most successful novels have been the three
novels that featured his character, Robert
Langdon.
- Those novels are Angels & Demons, The Da
Vince Code, and The Lost Key.
- Robert Langdon is a college professor who
works at Harvard University who ends up being
recruited to join missions all around the world.

5. CONTROVERSY
- The character of Robert Langdon’s missions usually had
recurring themes to them and those themes were
historical as well as religion, specifically on Christianity.
- A lot of the themes on Christianity are often seen in a
different light, one example being when he is talking
about the intense and violent rivalry of science and
religion or the fact .
- The most controversial novel he wrote was “The Da-Vince
Code” by revealing that Jesus Christ secretly had a
daughter.

6. SOCIAL MEDIA
- I feel like social media has helped boost things
that are controversial in today’s society.
- When somebody get’s offended by something
and are active on social media, they usually
post it and tell people to boycott it.
- This can be seen often as the biggest form of
advertising because the word spreads
faster, and with social media being used as the
outlet anybody can end up seeing the
information that was posted.

7. FILM ADAPTIONS
- Social media is also used to promote the novels
he has written that have been adapted to film.
- Angels & Demons and The Da-Vince Code are
the two novels that have been filmed.
- They were very successful in the box
office, especially The Da-Vince code which
grossed approximatly $750 million dollars.
- A third novel, The Lost Symbol, is confirmed to
be in production for a release sometime in 2012.

8. THE DA-VINCE CODE
- Is Dan Brown’s fourth novel and the first novel
of his to become a bestseller.
- It reached the top of the New York Times Best
Seller lists during its debut.
- It is now often credited as one of the most
popular books of all time.
- To date, is has sold more than 81 million copies
worldwide.

9. HIS SONGWRITING CAREER
- Dan Brown flirted with a music career after he
graduated college.
- He often used a synthesizer and produced his own
children’s cassette’s.
- His CD discography is:
- SynthAnimals
- Perspective
- Dan Brown
- Angels & Demons
- Musica Animalia

10. HUMOR WRITING
- Dan Brown also was into humor writing.
- He wrote:
- 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the
Romantically Frustrated Woman
- The Bald Book