Of his novels, he said: "This is the kind of fiction I would read if I read fiction."
He was sitting in his large and cunningly designed house at Rye Beach in the New Hampshire countryside. "I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning," he said recently. This is central to the Brown approach, because he himself prefers literature that is instructive and, ideally, not wholly invented. Among the topics addressed in his latest thriller, Origin: the wide-ranging talents of Winston Churchill, the elusive appeal of abstract art, the exciting peculiarities of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral and the latest insane developments in the world of artificial intelligence. Anyone who has read Dan Brown's work – and with 200 million copies of his books in print, you know who you are – is familiar with his signature technique of inserting little chunks of expository information into the narrative.
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