Sherlock holmes conan doyle biography

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle. His father suffered from epilepsy and alcoholism and was institutionalised. He died in an asylum in Doyle's mother kept a boarding was educated in Jesuit schools and later studied at Edinburgh University, qualifying as a doctor in After graduation Doyle practiced medicine until , when he became a full time writer. Creativity was apparent in Doyle's ancestry: his grandfather was a famous caricaturist and his uncle was a well-known illustrator. Doyle's father was an architect, designer and book illustrator. Doyle himself was an beundrare of Edgar Allan Poe and Emile developing his own literary character, Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on Doctor Joseph Bell, a surgeon and teacher he had studied with while attending Edinburgh University. Dr. Bell had the uncanny ability to reveal a patient'

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( - )

Portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, c  ©Conan Doyle is most famous as the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, but he had a varied career as a writer, journalist and public figure.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his grad from Edinburgh University in He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing.

Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in Its success encouraged Conan Doyle to write more stories involving Holmes but, in , Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including 'T

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Arthur Conan Doyle

British writer and physician (–)

"Conan Doyle" redirects here. For the rugby player, see Conan Doyle (rugby union). For the South African cricketer, see Conan Doyle (cricketer).

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May &#;– 7 July ) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.