Meny
Portrait image of Dan Brown Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2025)

Sample of authors

Brown, Dan

Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks, and his mother was a cantor. Both were active in their local Episcopalian church. Their three sons inherited their mother’s love of music and their father’s interest in puzzles, mysticism, ciphers and codes; there is an abundance of these in Dan Brown’s books...

Further reading

Literary figures

Lucius Leffing

Gender: Male

He loves everything Victorian, and has furnished his house in accordance with that. Lucius Leffing is an occult amateur detective, a ‘ghost-hunter’ who combats evil and supernatural adversaries in a number of books, primarily collections of short stories. He is unobtrusive, tall and slim, with a finely-chiselled face complete with moustache. Like his creator, Joseph Payne Brenna, he lives in New H...

Further reading