Dan Brown biography

The writer and musician Daniel Brown, known simply as Dan Brown, was born on June 22, 1964, in the town of Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. Mainly his fame is due to the success of the publication of his fourth novel: The Da Vinci Code, which was cataloged as a best-seller.

Throughout his career as a writer, he has published a total of nine books, which have been translated into fifty-six languages. His narrations in their great majority are loaded of symbols, cryptographies, and even popular conspiracy theories, being exposed in long searches that execute his characters.

Dan was the first of three children who would have the mathematician and writer on exact sciences Richard G. Brown, with the singer-songwriter of religious music Connie Brown. Four years later giving birth to his sister Valerie Brown, and years later his last brother Gregory W. Brown. He passed through different public schools in the town of Exeter, completing his constant transfers to successfully complete the ninth grade. From this moment he would spend his days accompanying his father in the classrooms where he taught in private Phillips Exeter Academy, while his mother offered him a religious and musical education. By that time he would consume large quantities of theoretical books on astronomy, cosmology and the origin of the universe, which would cause his beliefs to be questioned, being an element of great interest that would mark him and try to investigate later with his novels.

Another aspect of his childhood that would impact on his writing is the treasure hunt activities by means of riddles that his father planned, being carried out on the days of birthdays or holidays. Solving questions, following clues and deciphering codes became a part of his life that he enjoyed very much. After graduating from the Phillips Exeter Academy, he decided to study a career in literature, for which he entered Amherst College, located in Massachusetts. In this university, he participated as a member of a group of squash, choir and as a student of writing under the tutelage of the novelist Alan Lelchuk.

Approximately between 1980 and 1985 he decided to travel to Spain to complete his studies with courses on art history at the University of Seville. In 1986 he would complete his professional studies in literature and history. Having completed his studies he was attracted by music, beginning his foray into this area with a job as a composer to produce on his own a cassette with a compendium of children’s songs. This project obtained good sales that led him to create his own label, which he named Dalliance. Under his own record label, in 1990 he would launch another musical project aimed at an older audience, in CD format, entitled Perspective.

In 1991 he traveled to Hollywood in order to boost his musical career. In order to pay for his stay, he started several projects giving Spanish classes in Beverly Hills, joining the National Academy of Composers and participating in his presentations. At this time he would also meet Blythe Newlon, a fifteen-year-old woman with whom he would have a loving relationship and who would mainly spread her musical creations. A short time later he returned to New Hampshire with Blythe, continuing his aspiration to boost his musical career, but continuing to teach Spanish.

For the year 1993, he released another musical project entitled: Dan Brown, and after its launch, he travels to Tahiti for reasons of rest. In this place he would find by chance a forgotten book on a pool chair, this was Sidney Sheldon’s The Last Judgment conspiracy, which after reading it inspired him to try to write similar stories of the thriller genre. When returning to New Hampshire he became involved in the task of writing the draft of which it would be his first novel, at the same time that followed in its musical compositions. In the year of 1994 would launch another CD this would take the name of Angels and demons.

In order to dedicate himself entirely to writing, he decided to abandon teaching and suspend musical creation. The relationship with Blythe Newlon increased to the point of helping to edit, contributing ideas and even co-writing a project apart from a humorous book, leading them to make the decision to get married in 1997. The following year, Dan would publish his first novel: The digital fortress, which was widely promoted by his wife and harshly criticized by the public. Correcting mistakes and polishing his style published Angels and Demons and The Conspiracy between 2000 and 2001, but it was not until 2003 with the publication The Da Vinci code would be genuinely consecrated as a writer. The features of his narrative would be repeated from this moment in his future novels: The lost symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017), loading riddles, symbology, mysteries, an inquiry into the history and human beliefs go through a hidden treasure.