"Da Vinci Code" author avoids talk of his book's controversies

Though he's been hit with lawsuits and rebuffed by the Vatican, author Dan Brown said last week it's not his responsibility to address controversies stirred up by his book, "The Da Vinci Code." He said he's happy his best-selling novel about hidden religious history, secret societies and code-breaking has captured popular interest, but leaves the deliberations to others. "Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out," Brown told about 850 people at a sold-out writers talk. [more]