Truth or Fiction ?
Dan Brown
admits that his book Da Vinci Code is fictional.
However, the Book and Website strongly suggest that his book is
factual and historically accurate.
Good Morning America Interview:
Charlie
Gibson:
You wrote this book as fiction. If you
had written it as non-fiction, would it have been any different?
Dan Brown: I don't think so...I
began the research for the DaVinci Code as a skeptic.
I entirely
expected, as I researched the book, to disprove this theory.
And
after numerous trips to Europe, about two years of research, I
really became a believer ...
(Good Morning America, ABC, November 3, 2003,
interview)
Today Show
Matt Lauer asks Brown:
How much of this is based on reality in
terms of things that actually occurred?
Dad Brown reply:
Absolutely
all of it.
(On NBC's Today Show, June 9, 2003)
Matt Lauer: How much of this is
based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?
Dan Brown: Absolutely all of it.
Obviously, there are—Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the
art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that
is historical fact.
["NBC
Today Interview". NBC Today. 2003-06-03.]
CNN Sunday Morning
Martin Savidge:
When we talk about da Vinci and your book,
how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?
Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is
true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the
history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that
is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard
symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is
fictionalized. But the background is all true.
["Interview
With Dan Brown". CNN Sunday Morning (CNN).
2003-05-25.]
From Dan Brown's own web site we find the following
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