Tom Beyer: Fact vs. Fiction in Dan Brown Novels

Tom Beyer has taught Russian language and literature at Middlebury College for the past thirty five years. He is the author of over twenty books on Russian and English language and literature, including 501 Russian Verbs, 501 English Verbs, Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way and Now You’re Talking Russian. He has also translated Russian works in to English by the writers Vladimir Solovyov and Andrei Bely, including the enigmatic “poem in sound” Glossolalia.

Beyer is an authority on the novels of Dan Brown, including The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol. He has taught a number of seminars on Brown's books, looking in depth at the author’s claim of “Fact” and providing readers and students with the means to distinguish between fact and fiction.

He edited an online reference guide The Keys to The DaVinci Code, and his students are currently working on a wiki devoted to The Keys to Angels and Demons.