Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He began writing stories while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh (1876-1881). After serving as a ship’s doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Peterhead (on a sabbatical in 1880) and on the West African bound SS Mayumba (after graduation), he began practicing in Plymouth, then Portsmouth, and London. Soon, however, writing would take up most of his time.
Famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most popular detective, he also wrote very good historical novels (The White Company, 1891), science fiction novels (The Lost World, 1912), and adventure stories (the Brigadier Gerard series). At age 40, he served as a doctor in the Boer War, for which he was later knighted. At the age of 71, he died on July 7, 1930, from a heart attack in his home in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.
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