BIRTHDAYS: Dan Brown (Birthday 22nd June) - Famous American Author, Biography on Dan Brown Personal Life, Birth Details, Career, Achivements.

Dan Brown

Dan Brown is famous as thriller fiction writer from America. Brown best achievement is for his contribution in bestselling novel “ The Da Vinci Code” in the year 2003.

Birth Details of Dan Brown

• Dan Brown was born on 22nd June in the year 1964.
• Brown was born and bought up at Exeter in New Hampshire.
• Brown mother’s name is Constance (Connie) and she was a musician. She used to play organ in a Church.
• Brown father’s name is Richard G. Brown who was a popular mathematics teacher. He was a writer and editor of textbooks. He used to teach mathematics in Phillips Exeter Academy from 1968 until he retired in the year 1982.

Student Life of Dan Brown

• Brown has two younger siblings, Valerie and Gregory.
• Brown and his siblings were brought up at the boarding of Phillips Exeter Academy.
• But Brown had done his schooling from the public school of Exeter.
• Brown graduated from Philips Exeter in the year 1982.
• Then he joined Amherst College. He took fellowship in Psi Upsilon fraternity in this college.
• Brown again acquired his dual degree in English and Spanish in the year 1986 from Amherst College.
• Brown also used to play squash in this college.
• Brown used to sing for Amherst Glee Club.
• Brown was writing-student of novelist Alan Lelchuk.

Married Life of Dan Brown

• Brown got married to Blythe Newlon who is 12 years elder than him.
• Brown wife had an immense effect in pushing his career towards the success.
• They tied their knot in the year 1997.
• Location of their marriage was Pea Porridge Pond which is situated nearby North Conway at New Hampshire.

Career of Dan Brown

• Brown started his career as a musician by playing synthesizer along with producing a cassette for children with the collection of various tracks like "Suzuki Elephants” "Happy Frogs" and the cassette was named as “SynthAnimals”.
• Then Brown established his own record company entitled “Dalliance”
• Then in the year 1990, he launched a CD called “Perspective” and it catered to the adult market.
• Then Brown relocated to Hollywood in order to make his career in the field of piano playing and song writing.
• In order to spend his livelihood, he started taking classes in Beverly Hills Preparatory School.
• Then Brown started attending National Academy of Songwriters in Los Angeles and he attended many events there.
• In that academy, he fortunately met with Blythe Newlon, who was attached with this academy as the Director of Artist Development. She unofficially helped promoting various projects of Dan Brown in many ways by arranging many events, writing several press releases etc.
• In the meantime, Brown launched another CD entitled “Dan Brown” and few famous songs in this CD are “If You Believe in Love”, "976-Love" etc.
• Then he launched a CD called “Angels & Demons” in the year 1994.
• Brown began to work for “Digital Fortress” and he wrote a book of humor called “187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman” along with his wife with the penname Danielle Brown.
• Brown started his career as a full time author by leaving his teacher career in the year 1996.
• In the mean time , Digital Fortress was brought out in the year 1998.
• Initially, his first 3 novels could not gather much popularity so far.
• But Brown fourth novel, “ The Da Vince Code” gained worldwide acclaim and got the top position in New York Times Best Seller list and it happened in the first week of its launch in the year 2003.
• Then this novel was released on the silver screen by Columbus Pictures in the year 2006.
• This film was directed by Ron Howard.
• In the year 2005, he fought a court case against writer Lewis Perdue due to the similarity between “The Da Vinci Code” and Perdue’s novels Daughter of God and “The Da Vinci Legacy” and Brown won the case successfully.