The Da Vinci Code Author: Dan Brown Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

Dan Brown (1964-)

A famous American best-selling author, he graduated from Amherst University and was once an English teacher. He began writing in 1996 and has published four novels, including Digital Castle, Deception, Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons established his position in the novel world, while The Da Vinci Code topped the bestseller lists as soon as it was published, breaking sales records and becoming the best-selling novel in history, creating a miracle in the book market. Later, the English version of The Lost Symbol, which he completed in six years, was published by Random House Doubleday in September 2009. The first print run was as high as 6.5 million copies. Thirty-six hours after it was launched, the global sales of the book exceeded one million, and more than two million copies were sold in the first week, becoming the biggest highlight of the American book market shrouded in the dark clouds of the economic crisis. On May 14, 2013, the new work "Inferno" was published by Doubleday Publishing in the United States, with an initial print run of four million copies. In the first eight weeks after its publication, it topped the New York Times Book Review Weekly hardcover bestseller list. At the same time, its paperback and e-book versions also topped the list in the first eight weeks after their release.