Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series, which includes Angels and Demons of 2000, The Da Vinci Code of 2003, The Lost Symbol of 2009, Inferno of 2013, Origin of 2017 and The Secret of Secrets of 2025. His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a short span of time. He was born in 1964. His novels take place over a twenty-four-hour period and centre on recurring themes of cryptography, art and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into fifty-seven languages and had sold over two hundred million copies by 2012, and three of them, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, have been adapted into films.