For ‘Code’ Author, 24 Months in a Circus

Anonymous Patron writes The New York Times Reports two years and 25 million copies later, Dan Brown, the author of “The Da Vinci Code,” has all but gone into hiding.
Gone are the days when he could sit undisturbed in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, sketching out the murder scene that opens his blockbuster novel. He has stopped taking commercial flights because of the commotion that usually accompanies him, with people lining up in the aisle to get his autograph on books, cocktail napkins, even the occasional air-sickness bag.”