Rogak’s research also turned up a rare public acknowledgment from Brown of “187 Men to Avoid,” given in an interview about his novel “Angels and Demons,” which was published in 2000. In Lisa Rogak’s second unauthorized biography of Brown, “Dan Brown: The Unauthorized Biography” (a 2013 follow-up to “The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code: An Unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown,” published in 2005), Rogak, an exhaustive if often unsanctioned chronicler of celebrities’ lives, wrote that Brown had written “187 Men to Avoid” with his future ex-wife Blythe Brown.Īccording to Rogak, the couple (who were not yet married at the time “187 Men to Avoid” was published) had found inspiration for the book in “the ludicrous characters and dating and mating methods of the men and women they had witnessed” while living in Los Angeles.
His circumstances overlapped neatly with the author bio of “187 Men to Avoid”: “Danielle Brown currently lives in New England - teaching school, writing books, and avoiding men.” In 1995, the year “187 Men to Avoid” was published, Brown was working as a high school English teacher at his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and he had begun writing his first novel: the thriller “Digital Fortress.” “If I’m using my Dan Brown brain, it’s obviously Dan Brown putting the bar codes on fake books so that no one ever sees this really embarrassing book that he wrote in the ’90s.” “There’s not really a version of this that totally makes sense,” Gordon said. The 2006 reprint amends the cover text to read, “Early Humor from the Author of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’” and recasts the author as “Dan Brown Formerly Writing As Danielle Brown.”ĭata from NPD BookScan, which has tracked book sales data since the early 2000s, shows that the 2006 edition sold about 1,200 copies. The covers are almost identical - a pigeon-toed blond cartoon woman in a cherry red coat and floppy hat clutches herself protectively as she stands before a large assembly of suited men. But both the original 1995 edition and a Berkley Trade reprint published in 2006 are listed in various places online.
Information about the slim, square-shaped book is difficult to come by.
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