Sir arthur conan doyle biography pdf download

Here are some facts about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and doctor, born in May 1859 in Edinburgh.

  He is best known for creating the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.

• He studied medicine for several years at the University of Edinburgh. Doyle later worked as a doctor on a Greenland whaling ship and a surgeon on a ship sailing to West Africa.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started writing short stories in his late teens.
• The first Sherlock Holmes story,  A Study in Scarlet, was published in an 1886 magazine.
• Sherlock Holmes, was based on a professor at Doyle’s university, Joseph Bell.
• Doyle also wrote other books and short stories, including 3 Professor Challenger novels.

• Arthur Conan Doyle was more successful as a writer than as a doctor.

  His first medical partnership was a failure and when he set up his own eye care practice, he had no patients.