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Also known as Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Sir A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Conan Doyle

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician who lived from 1859 to 1930 and is best known for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. His works have had a lasting impact on literature and popular culture, making him one of the most influential authors of his era.

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. All of the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are now freely available at Project Gutenberg, both in text and spoken word. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sir+Arthur+Conan+Doyle">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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  • The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
  • These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me — the materializing power from elsewhere.
  • When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a good spin down the road, without thought of anything but the ride you are taking.
  • I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
  • You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
  • What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them.

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Arthur Conan Doyle is an author best known for creating Sherlock Holmes. Discover the global appeal of Arthur Conan Doyle and learn about licensing opportunities for film, television, books, audio, characters, trademarks & copyright.

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10 days of fun events will celebrate Arthur Conan Doyle's connections with Portsmouth.Holmes Fest the yearly festival celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes in Portsmouth returns this September with 10 days of all-new shows and activities. The Conan Doyle Estate are pleased to provide support to 'Holmes Fest' a celebration of the life and times of Arthur Conan Doyle... Two Lines Productions, in collaboration with hip-hop dance group BirdGang Ltd, presents Arthur Conan Doyle's Selecting a Ghost, newly adapted for the stage by Phil Cheadle.

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.

Born in Edinburgh, Doyle published his earliest stories whilst studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and he served as a doctor and surgeon on two sea voyages before establishing an unsuccessful medical practice in Portsmouth. His time at sea inspired the short story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), which popularised the mystery of the Mary Celeste. His first Sherlock Holmes work, the novel A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887, and the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) was the first of twenty-four monthly Holmes stories published in The Strand Magazine, for which Doyle became one of the most famous and well-paid authors of his time. His ambivalence towards the character led to Holmes's being killed off in "The Final Problem" (1893); but public outcry resulted in his return in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901), and Doyle continued to write stories featuring him up to 1927. He was also known for his humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard.

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