Dan Brown's New York Times best-sellerThe Da Vinci Code has sold many millions ofcopies inover forty languages, becoming aworldwide phenomenon that has inspired secretsocieties, international museum tours, and evena forthcoming major motion picture. Butdespite the phenomenal success of The DaVinci Code and several of his other novels,Dan Brown himself has been able to remainsomething of a mystery to his fans. While thereare more than two dozen books that address various aspects of The Da Vinci Code, little hasbeen written about the enigmatic author.
The Man Behind The Da Vinci Code is thefirst book to chronicle Dan Brown's upbringing,his rise to best-sellerdom, the sometimes myste-rious and quirky nuances of his character, and his recent straggles to protect a false sense ofanonymity by drawing into a sheltered and isolated society of his own making. Throughexclusive personal interviews with friends and former colleagues as well as newspaper articlesand interview transcripts collected over the course of Brown's career, biographer Lisa Rogakpaints an intriguing and insightful picture of the man Time magazine named one of the onehundred most influential people of 2005.
