Da Vinci Code author gives €1.72m to old school

Novelist Dan Brown, author of the multi-million-selling book The Da Vinci Code, is sharing some of his wealth with his old school in the United States.

The private Phillips Exeter Academy announced today that Brown and his siblings, Valerie and Gregory, had made a €1.72m donation in honour of their father, Richard Brown, who taught mathematics at the school for 35 years.