Novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859
in Edinburgh, Scotland. Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of master
sleuth Sherlock Holmes. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,
where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning
power. Bell partly inspired Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes years later. After
medical school, Doyle moved to London; where his slow medical practice left him
ample free time to write. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in
Scarlet, was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.
Starting in 1891, a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand
magazine. Holmes enabled Doyle to leave his medical practice in 1891 and devote
himself to writing, but the author soon grew weary of his creation. In The
Final Problem, he killed off both Holmes and his nemesis, Dr. Moriarty,
only to resuscitate Holmes later due to popular demand. In 1902, Doyle was
knighted for his work with a field hospital in South Africa. In addition to
dozens of Sherlock Holmes stories and several novels, Doyle wrote history,
pursued whaling, and engaged in many adventures and athletic endeavors. After
his son died in World War I, Doyle became a dedicated spiritualist. He died on
July 7, 1930 in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.
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