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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 22 de mayo de 1859 Edimburgo , Escocia -
He became an agnostic by the time he left school. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1881.
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Conan Doyle se casó con Louisa Hawkins en 1885 y juntos tuvieron dos hijos, Mary y Kingsley. Un año después de la muerte de Louisa en 1906, se casó con Jean Leckie y con ella tuvo tres hijos, Denis, Adrian y Jean. -
Doyle published his first novel, Scarlet Study, in 1887, in which he narrated the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes. -
Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, introduced Sherlock Holmes to the reading public. This was followed by two historical novels, Micah Clarke in 1889 and The White Company in 1891. The success of these works led Doyle to abandon medicine and launch his career as a writer. -
j., The Hound of the Baskervilles, serialized between 1901 and 1902) which feature Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. However, Conan Doyle claimed that Holmes's success eclipsed the credit he believed his other historical fictions deserved, most notably his 14th-century chivalric history The White Company (1891), its companion piece, Sir Nigel (1906), and his adventures of Napoleonic war hero Brigadier Gerard and skeptical 19th-century scientist Professor George Edward Challenger.
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Doyle's wife, Louisa, died in 1906. After the death of his son Kingsley just before the end of World War I, and the death of his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law, and his two nephews shortly after the war, Doyle sank. depressed. He found solace in supporting Spiritualism and its attempts to find proof of existence beyond the grave.
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7 July 1930 (aged 71) Crowborough, East Sussex, England