Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated with a medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1881 and opened his own medical practice the next year. In 1885 he married Louise Hawkins; they had two children, a boy and a girl. After Louise died of TB in 1906, Doyle married his second wife, Jean Leckie in 1907; they had three children. In 1902 he was knighted after writing the pamphlet The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct. 

Arthur Conan Doyle‘s first published story was The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley in 1879; it appeared in Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887. It is widely believed that he based the Dr. Watson character on himself. In 1891 he gave up his medical career to write full time. Another of his best-known non-Sherlock Holmes novels is The Lost World which was published in 1912. In addition to novels and short stories he also wrote non-fiction books about such topics as spiritualism and war. His last work, The Maracot Deep, was published in 1929.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on July 7, 1930 of a heart attack.

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