ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer who created the most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh in Scotland. His parents were quite wealthy but he did not get along well with his father. His mother was a well-educated woman. She loved reading a lot and she liked to read interesting stories to Arthur even when he was a young kid.

In 1968, Arthur Conan Doyle started studying in a religious school in England. When he turned 17, he started studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he met Professor Joseph Bell. Bell is believed to be the person who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create the character of Sherlock Holmes because of his extraordinary deduction skills.

Doyle graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1881 and started working as a doctor on a ship traveling between England and Africa. After that, he worked at several parts of England as a doctor. In 1885, he met and married his wife, Louisa. They had a son and a daughter.

Doyle started writing his first works at the age of 27. The first novel he wrote and published A Study in Scarlet, introduced readers to Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. Then about 60 other Sherlock Holmes stories followed and made Doyle famous. Doyle’s wife died in 1906 and a year later he married again to Jean Leckie. They had a daughter and two sons. Doyle died in 1930 after writing countless books.