Lewis Perdue (born May 1, 1949) is the author of 20 published books including Daughter of God, and The Da Vinci Legacy.

In 1976, Perdue helped investigative journalist Jack Anderson break the Koreagate case as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post.

[16] The center is currently exploring a potential causal relationship between human serum levels of BPA and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) through double blind clinical studies.

The director of Britain's Forensic Linguistics Institute, John Olsson,[19] analyzed both books, and declared the "evidence of infringement is overwhelming"[20] and "This is the most blatant example of in-your-face plagiarism I've ever seen...

On August 4, 2005, District Judge George B. Daniels granted a motion for summary judgment and dismissed the suit, ruling that "a reasonable average lay observer would not conclude that The Da Vinci Code is substantially similar to Daughter of God.