Dan Brown lives in theUnited States. His father was amathteacher and his mother was a churchorganist.[2] Before Dan Brown wrote books, he was anEnglish teacher. Dan Brown's wife, Blythe, is an artist. Sometimes she is known to help him with his books.
Dan Brown also likes to write aboutcodes and secrets. Sometimes he writes about real secrets, but he mostly writes fiction.
Brown's next book was supposed to be calledThe Solomon Key, but then the name was changed toThe Lost Symbol. When the bookThe Da Vinci Code came out in the United States, there were somepuzzles hidden in the art of the book cover. Brown said that the answers to those puzzles give hints about what would be in his next book. Two of the puzzles are about a famoussculpture calledKryptos, which is in the middle of theCIAHeadquartersbuilding inWashington D.C.
