Robert Langdon Robert Langdon Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional character created by author Dan Brown for his "Robert Langdon" book series: "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), "The Lost Symbol" (2009), "Inferno" (2013) and "Origin" (2017). He is a Harvard University professor of history of art and "symbology" (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics). Tom Hanks portrays Langdon in the "Robert Langdon" film series, starting with the 2006 film adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code", reprising the role in the 2009 film adaptation
The Bolitho novels The Bolitho novels The Bolitho "novels" are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent). They focus on the military careers of "Richard Bolitho" and "Adam Bolitho" in the Royal Navy, from the time of the American Revolution past the Napoleonic Era. Richard Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the main character in a series of novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent). Bolitho was born in 1756 in Falmouth, Cornwall, in Great Britain, the second son of a prestigious naval family. He joined the navy in