Dan Brown Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets

16^th June 2016

Fact: The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has donated 300,000 euros ($335,000) to the Ritman Library in Amsterdam, Holland, where he researched his bestsellers The Lost Symbol and Inferno. The cash hand-out will help preserve the library's ancient works.

16^th January 2013

Fact: Popular novelist Dan Brown is set to make a 2013 return. His new book, Inferno, will hit shelves in May (13). The story will once again feature his most famous character, symbologist Robert Langdon, who has been played by Tom Hanks in two big screen adaptations of Brown's books.

21^st April 2009

Fact: The highly anticipated follow-up to Dan Brown's hit novel The Da Vinci Code has broken records before its release - it is the publisher's largest ever first print run, with 6.5 million copies set to hit the shelves in September (09). The movie adaptation of the first book, starring Tom Hanks, was a box office smash, grossing more than $758 million (£505 million) worldwide.

4^th May 2006

Quote: "We corrected a little error that Dan Brown had made - that we don't have identity cards in the UK and if we did, I wouldn't use the title on mine." SIR Ian McKellen on helping get all aspects of The Da Vinci Code correct in the movie adaptation. The British knight plays SIR LEIGH TEABING in the much-anticipated film.

20^th February 2006

Fact: <p>The Da Vinci Code movie backdrop Winchester Cathedral, England, will start charging non-worshipping visitors $7.20 (GBP4) after it's starring role in the film version of the best-selling novel. The location raised $36,000 (GBP20,000) by allowing film-crews to use it for the Holy Grail thriller by author Dan Brown. </p>