Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown donates 300,000 euros to Dutch library

Dan Brown

Amsterdam: American author Dan Brown has donated 300,000 euros (Sh33.9 million) to Amsterdam's Ritman Library, where he researched some of his best-selling novels, to help preserve its ancient works.

The funding will be used to digitise part of the library's rare collection of books and manuscripts about the Hermetic religious tradition that Brown referenced when writing "The Lost Symbol" and "Inferno", it said in a statement.