Robert Langdon of "Angels & Demons", and again in the 2016 film adaptation of "Inferno". Dan Brown created the character as a fictional alter ego of himself or "the man he wishes he could be". Brown himself was born June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the fictional Langdon is described as having been born on June 22, also in Exeter, and attending the same school as Brown did, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially it is established that Langdon is a successful scholar who Brown named after John Langdon, a professor of typography at Drexel University who is known for his creation
Kyle Mills (author) Kyle Mills (author) Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including "Rising Phoenix", "Fade", and "The Second Horseman". Several of his books ("Rising Phoenix", "Storming Heaven", "Sphere of Influence", "Free Fall" and "Darkness Falls") include a character "Mark Beamon", an FBI special agent. He also wrote "The Ares Decision" (2011), "The Utopia Experiment" (2013), and "The Patriot Attack" (2015), the eighth, tenth, and twelfth installments of the "Covert-One series", originally created by Robert Ludlum. He is the current writer of the Mitch Rapp series of novels after original author Vince Flynn died in 2013. Mills lives