Arthur Conan Doyle

Edgar Allan Poe's detective, crime and mystery novels influenced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his own mysteries. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed that Edgar Allen Poe's stories were "a model for all time."

Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but he was a pure-blood Irishman

In his autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924), Conan Doyle writes: 'I, an Irishman by extraction, was born in the Scottish capital after two separate lines of Irish wanderers came together under one roof.'

I suppose the obvious answer is because he was a doctor himself, and this allowed him to be more realistic in his writing. He also knew that having a doctor as a sidekick would allow him to be a little more lenient with the Holmes character as to medical knowledge.

A son and a daughter, Kingsley and Mary, with his first wife, Louise Hawkins, aka Touie. Two sons and a daughter with his second wife, Jean Leckie : Adrian, Dennis and Lena Jean (who became Dame Jean Conan Doyle, commander of the Women's division of the Royal Air Force in World War II) Kingsley dies of influenza in 1919, after active service in World War I.

None of Sir Arthur's children had children.

He was a Doctor

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock, was apparently friends with Oscar Wilde & Roger Casement, who were both gay. BUT! Being gay was punishable by imprisonment & death back in those days, so if Sherlock is gay & not asexual, then he was closeted.

He wrote more than 20 novels and 100 short stories, also 81 poems, 12 plays, and 12 pamphlets with themes OTHER than Sherlock Holmes. He participated in the sports of football (soccer), cricket, golf, and downhill skiing. He even played a role in popularising the sport of downhill skiing, or what he called ski-running, in the UK and Switzerland. He was an amateur detective who helped to clear the names of two people. He was an avid freemason and spiritualist. He ran for Parliament twice, unsuccessfully.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson who grew up near Dartmoor where the story took place told Conan Doyle of the local legends. By the way, Robinson employed a driver named Harry Baskerville.

no, other than being a classic it has not won any modern awards

Yes, I think he should be remembered as one of the greatest writers of all time, and I know he will be remembered for centuries to come. The reason I think this is because he has been since 1930 and apparently you know about him, so you probably heard it from somebody, you learned it in class, or you heard about him from a friend. In other words, you might recommend this author, the school will teach people about him, or your friend will recommended this author.

He preferred to write historical novels. He didn't want Holmes to overshadow those, so he killed him.

Conan Doyle brought him back to life by having Sherlock survive the Reichenbach Falls confrontation, hence the continuing stories of Sherlock Holmes written in the Mystery genre.

1. A Study in Scarlet
2. The Sign of Four
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles
4. The Valley of Fear
5. A Scandal in Bohemia
6. The Red-Headed League
7. A Case of Identity
8. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
9. The Five Orange Pips
10. The Man with the Twisted Lip
11. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
12. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
13. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
14. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
15. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
16. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
17. Silver Blaze
18. The Yellow Face
19. The Stock-Broker's Clerk
20. The "Gloria Scott"
21. The Musgrave Ritual
22. The Reigate Puzzle
23. The Crooked Man
24. The Resident Patient
25. The Greek Interpreter
26. The Naval Treaty
27. The Final Problem
28. The Adventure of the Empty House
29. The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
30. The Adventure of the Dancing Men
31. The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
32. The adventure of the Priory School
33. The Adventure of Black Peter
34. The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
35. The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
36. The adventure of Three Students
37. The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
38. The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
39. The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
40. The Adventure of the Second Stain
41. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
42. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
43. The Adventure of the Red Circle
44. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
45. The Adventure of the Dying Detective
46. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
47. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
48. His Last Bow
49. The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
50. The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
51. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
52. The Adventure of the Three Gables
53. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
54. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
55. The Problem of Thor Bridge
56. The Adventure of the Creeping Man
57. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
58. The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
59. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
60. The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

Yes, twice, just like Watson, the first died of a severe sickness

If you are asking whether Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story called 'Lost in Space,' the answer is no. He wrote a novel called 'The Lost World' and two short stories called ' How Brigadier Lost his Ear' and 'The Lost Special,' but, sorry, no 'Lost in Space.'

The Adventure of the Speckled Band was published in February 1892, and it was written shortly before that.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band was created in 1892.

Yes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a freemason.

Arthur Guinness's place and date of birth are the subject of speculation.

His gravestone in Oughterard, County Kildare says he died on January 23, 1803, at age 78, indicating that he was born sometime in 1724 or very early in 1725. This contradicts the date of September 28, 1725 chosen by the Guinness company in 1991, apparently to end speculation about his birthdate. The place of birth is likely to be the maternal Read Homestead at Ardclough County Kildare where his father brewed for the local Ponsonby family.

In 2009 it was claimed he was born at nearby Celbridge where his father later became land steward for the Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Arthur Price, and may have brewed beer for the other workers on the estate. In his will, Dr. Price left £100 each to the Guinnesses.

Arthur Conan Doyle's family was poor and his father was an alcoholic. After his father died, a rich uncle put Arthur in a Jesuit boarding school. He later went to Stonyhurst College and a Jesuit school in Austria. He trained to be a medical doctor.

It's written in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's bibliographies. According to that text, it says that Doyle got bored and sick of Holmes (though I can't think how anybody could be sick of Holmes) and killed him off in the Reichenbach Falls during his fight with Moriarty.

Fencing and boxing

One example is in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," where the British government's secrets are at risk due to espionage. Another example is in "The Sign of the Four," where British colonial history is mentioned in connection with the Agra treasure. Doyle frequently referenced aspects of the British Empire in his works, reflecting the influence and reach of the Empire during his time.

It seems that Sir Conan Doyle wasn't that fond of Sherlock Holmes, nor was he pleased with the fact that his popularity greatly superseded that of his other writings.

There was a public outcry and Conan Doyle had to bring Holmes back from the dead by pretending Holmes hadn't fallen to his death after all but had pretended to die in order to escape his enemies.

Conan Doyle then wrote five more books (2 novels and 32 short stories) and then finished off Holmes with "His Last Bow", and then died 3 years later.....

The "Lost World" theory posits that isolated, ancient ecosystems persist in remote areas, resembling prehistoric environments that have not been significantly altered by human activity. This idea has been used to explain the discovery of flora and fauna species that are thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago.