Dan Brown Sued by Historians

According to Reuters, Dan Brown spent the Monday in a London courtroom. Two historians have accused the author of stealing their ideas in The Da Vinci Code.

Central to The Da Vinci Code is the idea that Mary Magdalene married Jesus and had a child by him, a theory put forth in Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent's 1982 nonfiction book, The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail. Leigh and Baigent say that Brown lifted this directly from their book.

The part that I really like is about this story is that a major character in Brown's The Da Vinci Code is named Sir Leigh Teabing, which is an anagram of Leigh and Baigent. Coincidence or guilty homage?