Lewis Perdue

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Lewis Perdue
Perdue in 2009
Perdue in 2009
Born (1949-05-01) May 1, 1949 (age 72)
Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
EducationCornell University
SpouseMegan Perdue
Children2

Lewis Perdue (born May 1, 1949) is the author of 20 published books including Daughter of God, and The Da Vinci Legacy. Perdue was sued by Random House in 2003 when he charged that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code plagiarized those two books. Random House won the lawsuit but lost their demand to have Perdue pay their legal fees.[1][2][3]

Life[]

Perdue was born in the Mississippi Delta in 1949, to. He was expelled from the University of Mississippi in 1967 for leading a civil rights march. He graduated from Corning Community College in 1970 with an associate degree, before studying physics and biology at Cornell University, graduating with a bachelor's degree and honors in 1972.[4] While at Cornell, he worked as a full-time reporter for The Ithaca Journal.[5]

Perdue currently lives in Sonoma, California, with his wife, Megan, and two children: William and Katherine.

Works[]

  • The Delphi Betrayal (1981)
  • Queen's Gate Reckoning (1982)
  • The Da Vinci Legacy (1983)
  • The Tesla Bequest (1984)
  • The Linz Testament (1985)
  • Zaibatsu (1988)
  • Daughter of God (1999)
  • Slatewiper (2003)
  • Perfect Killer (2005)
  • Die By Wire (2011) [6]

References[]

  1. ^ Mnookin, Seth (July 2006). "THE DA VINCI CLONE?". www.sethmnookin.com. Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Author Brown 'did not plagiarise'". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 6 August 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ^ Lara, Adair (30 March 2004). "One 'Da Vinci' has sold millions, the other is little known. Lewis Perdue alleges the popular novel has his book to thank". www.sfgate.com. SF Gate. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Lewis Perdue". www.mswritersandmusicians.com. Mississippi Writers Project. 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  5. ^ Perdue, Lewis (1992). "AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES: LEWIS PERDUE". french-paradox.net. The French Paradox. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Lewis Perude". www.fantasticfiction.com. Fantastic Fiction. 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2019.


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