Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician who created Sherlock Holmes and wrote four novels and fifty-six stories about the detective.
- Lived
- 1859–1930
- Nationality
- Scottish
Arthur Conan Doyle trained as a doctor in Edinburgh and began writing fiction while his medical practice was quiet. He introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1887), and the character became so popular that he is the one most readers associate with him.
Doyle also wrote historical novels, the science-fiction adventure The Lost World, and later works on spiritualism.