Dan Brown Tahiti in 1993, Brown read Sidney Sheldon's novel "The Doomsday Conspiracy", and was inspired to become a writer of thrillers. He started work on "Digital Fortress", setting much of it in Seville, where he had studied in 1985. He also co-wrote a humor book with his wife, "187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman", under the pseudonym "Danielle Brown". The book's author profile reads, "Danielle Brown currently lives in New England: teaching school, writing books, and avoiding men." The copyright is attributed to Brown. In 1996 Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer. "Digital
Inferno (Brown novel) Inferno (Brown novel) Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his "Robert Langdon" series, following "Angels & Demons", "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Lost Symbol". The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years after publication of "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), by Doubleday. It was number one on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of