Leaving his musical aspirations, Dan Brown turned to teaching. How a failed musician became a best-selling author Later on, he blamed his shyness and his lack of presence on stage for the failure of his music career. That's where he recorded an album consisting mainly of melancholic love songs.

In 1991, Brown moved to Los Angeles where he joined the National Academy of Songwriters. Experimenting with synthesizers and recorders, he taught himself how to compose music. He sang in a choir, and after studying history of art for two years in the Spanish city of Seville, he started writing songs. While studying English at a university in his home town, he was more interested in music. Initially, however, Dan Brown did not dream of becoming a writer. With his father being a math professor and his mother a church musician, he developed a fascination for the paradoxical interplay between science and religion that was to become the main theme of his famous novels later on. Once again, movie-goers can expect exciting adventures filled with codes, riddles and symbols.īut who is really behind all those complicated stories? A look into Dan Brown's background explains his passion for history of art, and for numbers, riddles and symbols.ĭan Brown was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1964.

Those who have read the novel by Dan Brown know what it is all about, those who haven't are probably able to guess. After the blockbusters 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels & Demons,' Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks will be depicting for the third time symbology professor Robert Langdon in 'Inferno.'

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