Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste.[1] He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. Life and career[edit] Early life[edit] Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.[2][3] His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic.
Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness.[13][14] Name[edit] Writing career[edit] History - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Biography - Arthur Doyle Childhood, Life & Timeline. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish doctor, author and poet, and is most notably remembered for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Regarded as the leading light of crime and science fictions, the author is best known for the world popular character Sherlock Holmes and the adventures of Professor Challenger. Sir Arthur Doyle was a prolific writer and produced a prodigious output in a variety of genres ranging from science fictions to historical novels to plays and romances and non-fiction stories. The world famous character of detective Sherlock Holmes first appeared in his novel A Study in Scarlet in 1887, and from then on Sir Arthur began writing stories starring the character which resulted in about fifty five more Sherlock Holmes stories and four novels starring him.
He wrote many fiction and non fiction works including The Stark Munro Letters, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerad, The Hound of the Baskervilles and his masterpiece The Lost World. Death. Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle, the son of Charles Doyle and Mary Foley, was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1859.
Arthur's father was an alcoholic and the family was always short of money. At school, Arthur developed a strong interest in the books written by Sir Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe. Conan Doyle studied at Edinburgh University and helped to fund his course by working as a surgeon on Hope, a 400 ton whaler on a seven month voyage to the Arctic. The following year he worked on Mayumba, a passenger ship bound for West Africa. On this voyage Conan Doyle nearly died of typhoid. On his return, Conan Doyle set up as a doctor in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. In 1891 Conan Doyle published six Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle served as a doctor in the Boer War (1899-1902) and wrote The War in South Africa (1902), where he attempted to justify Britain's actions during the war. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Biography - Arthur Doyle Childhood, Life & Timeline. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Home Page.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was born in Edinburgh of an Irish Roman Cotholic family and was educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University.
From 1882 to 1890 he practised, not very successfully, as a doctor in Southsea. In 1887 Doyle created the most celebrated amateur detective in all fiction, Sherlock Holmes, in his very first book, A Study in Scarlet. From then until 1927, the year of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle was virtually the prisoner of his own creation. He wrote a number of full-length detective novels, of which The Sign of Four in 1890 and The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902, were outstanding. And he wrote a long series of short stories about Sherlock Holmes to satisfy the clamant demand of the public and his own pocket.
In later years he became a convinced spiritualist and wrote a number of works on the subject. but it was his creation of Sherlock Holmes, with Dr Watson as his friend and foil, that will carry forward Doyle's reputation. Walls, In Search of Scotland, University of Otago, New Zealand. John Buchan (1875-1940) Buchan was born in Perth in Scotland, the eldest of six siblings.
At the age of five he sustained a skull fracture in a carriage accident. The resulting scar is still clearly visible in the photograph above. Trained as a barrister, he found more success as a publisher, writer and politician. He himself said ‘Publishing is my business, writing an amusement and politics my duty.’ John Galt (1779-1839) Born in Irvine on the west coast of Scotland, Galt was a sickly child who stayed at home and despite his mother’s protestations, developed ‘bookish propensities’. Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006) Muriel Sarah Camberg was born in Edinburgh, her father a Scottish Jew and her mother a Christian. Val McDermid Born in 1955, Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy in Fife which is about 11 miles north of Edinburgh, as the crow flies, across the Firth of Forth. McDermid also reviews for various British newspapers and writes for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. J. The Arthur Conan Doyle Society Home Page. P.O.
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