‘Code’ author backs academy

Novelist Dan Brown, author of the multimillion-selling “The Da Vinci Code,” is sharing some of his wealth with his old high school: Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H.

The school announced Monday that Brown and his siblings, Valerie and Gregory, had made a $2.2-million donation in honor of their father, Richard Brown, who taught mathematics at the academy for 35 years. The gift will help provide students with computers and other high-tech equipment.