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
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals In Search of a Character: Two African Journals In Search of a Character: Two African Journals is a slim volume, part travel book, part novelist’s journal, written by English author Graham Greene and first published in 1961. Greene set two of his novels in Africa; "A Burnt-Out Case", set in the Belgian Congo, and "The Heart of the Matter", set in Sierra Leone. This book contains the journals, not originally intended for publication, that Greene kept on journeys he made for research purposes before writing those two novels. The first part, Congo Journal, mainly deals with his journey to the