Lewis Perdue


Lewis Perdue 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.

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. While at Cornell, he worked as a full-time reporter for The Ithaca Journal.
Perude currently lives in Sonoma, California, with his wife, Megan, and two children: William and Katherine.

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