Dan Brown visited my English class. It happened in the spring of 1998, when I was a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy. One day, our English teacher, Mr. Terry, announced that we’d be hosting a special guest: some guy, apparently named Dan Brown, who had just published his first novel, “Digital Fortress.” I can’t say that we responded with particular enthusiasm. None of us had heard of Brown, or of his book, and we were also annoying, arty little snooty-snoots. Why would we want to talk with the author of a “techno-thriller” about computer hackers (sample line: “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders… the worm”)?
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