Biography
According to the Journal "Forbes", the author of bestseller about Leonardo da Vinci enters the top 16 of the most "dear" world writers. Dan Brown's talent fans love its essays for the genome "alloy" thriller and an intellectual detective.
Opponents call the writer as a hoax and an adventurer, masterfully invented "secrets" and "riddles" where they are not. But Brown's novels are sold by the translated circulations, are shielded, and the multi-million army of fans is looking forward to new fascinating works.
Childhood and youth
A writer was born in American New Hampshire in the summer of 1964. He grew up in an intelligent family, where music and mathematics were organically intertwined. The head of the family is Professor Brown - he taught mathematics at the Academy of Phillips-Exeter. For the manual Richard Brown, children are studying in secondary schools of America. Mom Constance Brown in the same elite educational institution worked as a music teacher and played a body in the episcopal church.
Dan and Brother Gregory and the sister Valerie grew in a warm atmosphere of parental love and attention. Dad and Mom made the life of siblings saturated and fascinating: the love for the rebuses was vaccinated with children from an early age. For Christmas, the guys did not take gifts under the Christmas tree, and found them, focusing on the map with prompts. Radding the poetic charaks and "secret ciffers", guessed about the place where parents hid the "treasure".
Dan Brown graduated from a private school at the Academy, and then the Academy itself, in which the father was taught with his mother. The atmosphere in an independent private educational institution resembled a closed society. Yes, and the town himself was famous for several public organizations similar to the Order of Masons.
Having received a diploma of the Academy, Dan Brown continued her education in Massachusetts Aven College, where he joined the Psi Uzylon society. Brown graduated from the last Course in the Spanish Seville University, where he chose linguistics. In 1986 he became a bachelora.
The first years after the University of Dan Brown built a musical career. Texts and music for their songs wrote himself. Brown's CDs soon came out, but the concerts and tour of the young singers were pretty, and he moved away from musical affairs.
Dan Brown moved to Hollywood hills, closer to the "Dream factory", and settled in "Beverly Hills Skull". But after 2 years, in 1993, returned to his native Exeter, where he taught languages.
Literature
The first page of Braun's creative biography was written in 1995. Dan composed the humorous book "187 men, from which you should stay away: a reference book for survival for romantically disappointed women." Later, Brown will call written by the "silly humorous book" and will be happy that the publishers are not printed.
Brown's passion for the history of religious orders and societies, the work of special services and cryptography pushed to writing the second book and the first novel created in the triller genre. "Digital Fortress" - a work on the secret work of the special services and the finest face, dividing personal freedom and state security.
The idea of the novel arose from Dan Brown when the agents of the special services looked into the closed school. After presenting a certificate, they stated that the student of the Phillips Exeter represents a threat to the state. In e-mail, the NP guy discovered a threat to kill the president.
Dan Brown became interested in electronic surveillance details, collecting intelligence and search engines. The writer so became interested in writing the novel, which got up no later than 4 in the morning and managed to compose a dozen pages. The book was written in less than a year.
In 2000, a second conspiraological novel was ripened, called "Angels and Demons." Brown wrote it, mixing the genres of detective and thriller. Evaluation of the creation is an accident: a guide, showing the Vatican, pointed out Dan and other excursors to the secret corridor of the residence, with which dad could leave the room if his life threatened danger. The worst enemies of the Vatican guide called the Illuminati. Soon the Radia Tologa-Jesuit foliage was hit by the Romanist, which described the secrets of the Election of Pope. The writer understood who would make the hero of the future book.
A year later, Dan Brown was in charge of the Publishing House "Point of Deception" in the publishing house, in which he raised the problem of politician morality.
The first three books did not bring a novelist of fame, so Dan Brown laid hopes for the fourth. The idea of the "Da Vinci" code has emerged during the study period in Spain. At lectures on the history of art, the teacher, talking about the work of the Brilliant Leonardo, drew the attention of students to the inexplicable details on the Master's canvases, similar to the Epistle ciphers. At the 21-year-old Brown, from childhood who passed the rest of the rebuses and charaks, the lecture caused a storm of emotions and the desire to solve the "encoding".
"Da Vinci Code" was published in 2003 and made the effect of a broken bomb. On the very first day, readers acquired 6 thousand copies of 230 thousand printed. Book pubments responded to unprecedented demand, transferred a book into 40 languages and published 81 million copies of the novel. New York Times and Wall Street Journal called "Da Vinci Code" book hit №1.
After 3 years, the largest film companies of Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures were shielded by Roman Brown, invested in shooting 125 million dollars. From the rental of the picture, the American writer on different estimates earned from $ 250 to $ 300 million.
The excitement from "Coda Da Vinci" opened the demand for the previous Novels of the writer. Publishers have printed modest circulation of "Digital Fortress", "Angels and Demons" and "Point of Deception". On the publication of four detectives, Dan Brown earned $ 260 million.
It is noteworthy that in the "Code Da Vinci" there is a connection with the previous thriller "Angels and Demons": novels are associated with a common hero - Professor Robert Langdon. Found the readers who held a parallel between Langdon and Harry Potter, calling the professor a revolving hero of the cult novel Joan Rowling.
Dan Brown is becoming a world celebrity. The interview with the new star take the "Time" edition, Piple, New Yorker and Forbes. But the critics at the novelist in excess. Skeptics called novels with pseudo-scientific, and the writers ridiculed the style of Brown. The famous English poet and the editor Tom Chivers called the prose of the American "Swingovaya", and scientists in the Pooh and Prahi ruled the approval of the novelist in the prefaces to work that the detectives are based on historical facts. For example, in "Angels and Demonies", the author writes that Nikolai Copernicus Catholics burned on a fire, while astronomer lived to advanced years and died of stroke.
There are other inconsistencies and false statements, "cutting" hearing formed readers. Rafael Dan Brown "buried" in the town of Urbino in the east of Italy, whereas in reality the artist always rested in the Roman Pantheon. Galileo Galileo Writer "introduced" into the occult Order of the Illuminati, although society emerged in a century after the death of the Italian scientist.
In 2009, Dan Brown pleased the army of fans with a new novel called "lost symbol". The main character is all the same Harvard professor Langdon. On the first day, the readers have been sinking from the counters of bookstores Million copies. The American Publishing House DoubleDay printed 6.5 million books, breaking the old records of typography.
In May 2013, Dan Brown presented readers a detective novel "Inferno", the events in which they develop in the 21st century, but intertwined with the plot of the poem "Divine Comedy" Dante Aligiery. And again the hero of the Roman - Robert Langdon.
"Inferno" - the third shielded Roman Dan Brown. The film of the same name came out in 2016. Directed by Ron Howard entrusted the main roles in the thriller of That Hanksu and Feliciti Jones.
Personal life
The place for secrets and conspiraology was also in the personal life of Brown. The fact that the spouse of the writer Blis Brown (Blytte Newon) plays in the works of the novelist the first violin, the public learned on the trial in 2007. Brown was suspected in plagiarism, and at the court obliged to disclose the details and details of the writing of novels. It turned out that the idea of "Cod Vinci" belongs to Blis. The writer's wife collects and systematizes the information used by her husband in writings. Moreover, Blis participates in writing novels: Dan Brown admitted that "not very good in detail," and the spouse helps him.
Blytte Newlon was born in California. Couple got acquainted in Los Angeles, when art historian and artist Blytch turned 39 years old, and Danu - 27. This is all that is known about the past Newlon.
After failure in a musical career, Dan Brown returned to Exeter with her senior for 12 years. Brown and Newlon married in 1997. The woman became his wife, the mother of two children and a companion (some affirm - co-authored) Dan Bestsellers.
There are both those who call the author of the Romanov, saying that she deliberately went to the second plan for mercantile reasons: in the patriarchal world, more success belongs to works, the authors of which are men. But this version is from the area of rumors and speculation. Nevertheless, all the novels of Dan Brown devotes her to her beloved spouse.
The Brown family acquired a plot in the remote area of Hampshire, in the forest. The house built by spouses is similar to the fortress and is equipped with the latest alarm.
Dan Brown now
Brown fans in the premonition of a new sensation: For the autumn of 2017, the output of the Roman Dan Brown "Origin" is announced. The plot of the author holds in secret, but the idol of Millions, Professor Langdon, will appear again.
Representatives of Publishing houses TRANSWORLD and DoubleDay, which owns the right to print, hint at the "origin" readers are again waiting for ciphers, secrets, scientific theories and response to the oldest questions, thousands of years who do not give peaceful to mankind.
Bibliography
- 1998 - "Digital Fortress"
- 2000 - "Angels and Demons"
- 2001 - "Point of deception"
- 2003 - "Da Vinci Code"
- 2009 - "Lost Symbol"
- 2013 - "Inferno"
- 2017 - "Origin"