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23 August 2006
The Write Stuff - Dan
Brown
"Writers don't need
love - all they require is money," said playwright John
Osbourne. But these authors seem to have plenty of
both.
Dan Brown –
£38 million
It shouldn't come as any
surprise that Dan Brown was recently named one of the
world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. His
controversial book The Da Vinci Code is one of the best
selling novels of all time (it sold 23 million copies in
2004).
Brown, who wrote his first
novel, Digital Fortress, in the late 1990s, had five of the
15 best selling books in the United States in 2004, and his
novels have been translated and published in more than 40
languages around the world.
A graduate of Amherst
College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as
an English teacher before turning his efforts to writing
full time, Brown's writing has been strongly influenced by
his family – his father is a maths professor, his
mother plays sacred music professionally; and his wife,
Blythe is an art historian and painter.
Brown's other private
inspiration is also cerebral, if more physically so –
he favours hanging upside down while wearing gravity boots.
"Hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges
by shifting my entire perspective," he says.
Don't knock it –
Brown who came 12th on the 2005 Forbes rich list, is said to
be worth almost £40 million. That's before the smash
hit movie starring Tom Hanks was released this year starring
Tom Hanks. Not a bad sum to rake in while 'hanging
around'.
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