John Langdon - Inspiration for Fictional Robert Langdon
John Langdon, professor of typography at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is Dan Brown's inspiration (at least, in part) for fictional Harvard professor, Robert Langdon. It was John Langdon who created all the ambigrams featured in Angels & Demons - including those images branded onto the chests of the Preferati (the four fictional Cardinals in the running to become the next pope).
CreditsImage online, courtesy Drexel University.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic