How much money has he made from The Da Vinci Code?
A lot. Forbes estimates his earnings from June 2004 through June 2005 at more than $76 million, and he’s sold another 20 million copies of The Da Vinci Code since then. (It came out in paperback last month.) Authors generally make a buck or two from each book sold. Figure in the increased sales of his earlier novels, plus the screen rights and other deals he’s struck, and it’s a sizeable fortune.