Read the following text carefully! Daniel Dan Brown (an American author of thriller Action) was born on 22 June, 1964. This eldest son of three children was born and raised in Exeter, New Hampshire. He grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, Richard G. Brown, was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks from 1968 until his retirement in 1997 The young Brown spent hours working out anagrams and crossword puzzles, and he and his siblings participated in elaborate treasure hunts devised by their father on birthdays and holidays On Christmas, for example, Brown and his siblings did not find gifts under the tree, but followed a treasure map with codes and clues throughout their house and even around town to find the gifts Brown's relationship with his father inspired that of Sophie Neveu and Jacques Sauniere in The Da Vinci Code, and Chapter 23 of that novel was inspired by one of his childhood treasure hunts While on vacation in Tahiti in 1993, Brown read Sidney Sheldon's novel The Doomsday Conspiracy This experience then inspired him to become a writer of thrillers. In Brown's view, the ideal topic does not have an easily defined right or wrong view, but presents a moral grey area that can lend itself to debate. In 1996, Brown quit teaching to become a full-time writer Digital Fortress was published in 1998. His wife, Blythe, did much of the book's promotion writing press releases, booking Brown on talk shows, and setting up press interviews Brown subsequently wrote Angels & Demons and Deception Point, released in 2000 and 2001 respectively, the former of which was the first to feature the lead character, Harvard symbology expert Robert Langdon His first three novels had little success, with fewer than 10,000 copies in each of their first printings. However, his fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code became a bestseller, going to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list during its first week of release in 2003 It was credited with being one of the most popular books of all time, with 81 million copies sold worldwide as of 2009. The success of The Da Vinci Code helped push sales of Brown's earlier books In 2004, all four of his novels were on the New York Times list in the same week, and in 2005 he made Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Forbes magazine placed Brown at No 12 on their 2005 "Celebrity 100" list, and estimated his annual income al US$76.5 million. The Times estimated his income from Da Vinci Code sales as $250 million (Adapted from en wikipedia org) Task 1 Answer the questions according to the text! 1. What is the genre of the text? Answer: 2. Who is Dan Brown? Answer 3. How did he become inspired to be thrillers' writer? Answer: 4 What did the young Dan Brown do on Christmases? Answer 5. Write down the generic structure of the text! Answer​