John Langdon (typographer) Langdon is known mostly through his association with Dan Brown, and the novels "Angels & Demons", "The Da Vinci Code," "The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and Origin". The protagonist of these novels was named Robert Langdon as a tribute to John Langdon, and he will continue to be so for his next 12 books, an estimate given by Dan Brown himself. Langdon is now a professor of typography and corporate identity at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He continues to do work on ambigrams, as well and fine art works that incorporate language, type, and philosophy. Langdon credits his paternal grandparents for
Confessions of a Window Cleaner of low brow popular literature. The series of source novels about Timmy Lea had benefited from a literary forgery, the notion that Lea was not a fictional character but the actual author. The series was a sexual fantasy masquerading as confessional writing, a genre which tends to attract audiences. When novice film producer Greg Smith became interested in adapting the novels to screen, the hoax was maintained and Timmy Lea received credits as the author of the source material. The actual author and screenwriter, Christopher Wood, hardly resembled his creation. "Confessions" was a low-budget film, with a budget of £100,000,