#Author of the da vinci code series#

In the book, Robert Langdon has to solve a series of riddles and codes, much like Brown did as a child on Christmas morning. And in the mornings, he wrote 'The Da Vinci Code' in a little office above a friend's bookstore. He also started teaching back at Phillips Exeter, teaching English in the afternoon. 'That was my only selling book,' Brown laughed. He wrote three novels and, under a pen name, a joke book called '187 Men to Avoid.'Дokoupil asked, 'In the early days, was that your bestselling book?'

BOOK EXCERPT: Read the prologue and Chapter 1 of Dan Brown's 'Origin'Д«rown's own evolution began at Phillips Exeter Academy, the prestigious prep school in New Hampshire, where his father taught math вЂ¦ and taught his son to put his faith in science.Дokoupil asked, 'How important do think math, your father, this classroom has been to your work?'Д«ut for decades Brown's career wandered вЂ¦ first to music ('I hit Los Angeles at about the time that the rap craze hit, and really nobody wanted to hear the kind of songs I was writing'), and few wanted Brown's early books, either.

'I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel that we are evolving in that direction,' he replied.

'And my question is, 'Are we naГЇve to believe that the gods of today will not suffer the same fate?'' 'Traditionally, all the gods fall,' Brown said. Now, Brown is at it again with a new novel, 'Origin' (out this week), that puts God on the edge of extinction. And that is the danger of any philosophy, or any religion.'

At the same time, there are factions in every religion that take the metaphors and the myth of scripture and they hold them up as literal fact. Religion does an enormous amount of good in the world.

Author of the da vinci code