Who is Dan Brown?
Dan Brown was born on 22 June 1964 in New Hampshire, USA. The oldest of three children, Brown grew up in a house where art had a heavy presence: his mother was a professional musician and his father wrote textbooks while teaching high-school math. This early influence proved vital to Brown’s future, as he ended up pursuing a musical career and releasing two albums, one for adults and one for children. While in Los Angeles pursuing a career as a songwriter, Dan Brown met and marry Blythe Newlon, the director of the Director of the National Academy of Songwriters. Dan Brown continued to produce music and later became an English teacher to support his family. It wasn’t until 1994 that Brown started writing and publishing. In fact, the first few books to his credit were co-written with his wife and were all humorous books, such as 187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman and The Bald Book. With the publication of Digital Fortress in 1998, Dan Brown became a full time
He is a former English teacher who began full-time writing in 1996. His second novel, Angels and Demons, featured the Illuminati, a vial of anti-matter and a papal conclave. He holds no advanced degrees in religion. What’s the basis for Brown’s views on Mry Magdalene and her competition with Peter? All that Holy Blood, Holy Grail stuff, of course, but then there are also the Gnostic Gospels. Gnosticism was a dualistic, esoteric mode of thinking that was widespread during the early Christian era, although its influence was not confined to Christianity. The Gnostic Gospels are works reflecting the Gnostic take on Christianity. Some have been known for centuries, but previously unknown works in the Nag Hammadi scrolls were discovered in Egypt in 1945. Some modern scholars and religious writers have seized upon various passages from the Gnostic Gospels as indicative of a competing, woman-centered element of early Christianity, especially a passage fro The Gospel of Mary in which Jesus kiss
