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
Keith Taylor (author) Keith Taylor (author) Keith John Taylor (born 26 December 1946) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer. Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard hero, Cormac Mac Art - an Irish Viking active in King Arthur's time. Taylor's series of novels centering on an Irish character of his own creation - the bard Felimid mac Fal - was published throughout the 1980s. Much of Taylor's fictional output in the 1990s was