Forbes magazine placed Brown at #12 on their 2005 “Celebrity 100” list, and estimated his annual income at US$76.5 million. In 2004, all four of his novels were on the New York Times list in the same week, and in 2005, he made Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Its success has helped push sales of Brown’s earlier books.

It is now credited with being one of the most popular books of all time, with 81 million copies sold worldwide as of 2009. Brown subsequently wrote Deception Point and Angels and Demons, the latter of which was the first to feature the lead character, Harvard symbology expert Robert Langdon.īrown’s first three novels had little success, with fewer than 10,000 copies in each of their first printings however, Brown’s fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code, became a bestseller, going to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list during its first week of release in 2003. It was officially credited to his wife, though a representative of the publisher said that it was primarily written by Brown. A few months later, Brown and his wife released The Bald Book, another humor book. His wife, Blythe, did much of the book’s promotion, writing press releases, booking Brown on talk shows, and setting up press interviews.

In 1996, Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer. The book’s author profile reads, “Danielle Brown currently lives in New England: teaching school, writing books, and avoiding men.” The copyright is attributed to Dan Brown. He also co-wrote a humour book with his wife, 187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman, under the pseudonym “Danielle Brown”. While on holiday in Tahiti in 1993,Brown read Sidney Sheldon’s novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, and was inspired to become a writer of thrillers.He started work on Digital Fortress, setting much of it in Seville, Spain, where he had studied in 1985.

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