The few seats in the 10th-floor courtroom not filled by journalists on Monday were quickly taken by avid trial-watchers hoping to catch a glimpse of Brown's testimony - including many with an interest in shadowy medieval orders, alleged dark secrets within the Roman Catholic Church, and celebrity authors.Ä«rown took the stand in London's High Court and dismissed claims he copied two writers? work for "The Da Vinci Code." Branding the allegations of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh as "completely fanciful," he said he had not read their book until the ideas and story line of his theological thriller were already in place. to work - "by making writing the first order of business every day, I am giving it enormous symbolic importance in my life," he said. The trial is a serious change from Brown's small-town New Hampshire life, where he lives in Rye with his wife Blythe, and rises at 4 a.m. LONDON - Dan Brown guards his privacy obsessively, but the author read by millions around the world was forced into the spotlight of a London courtroom to defend himself against accusations he copied the work of others.
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