Arthur Conan Doyle
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Educated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he began publishing short pieces, he later turned to full-time writing after a brief stint as a ship’s doctor and an unsuccessful practice in Portsmouth. His creation of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, first appearing in an 1887 novel, spawned a series of twenty-four Strand Magazine stories that made him one of the era’s best-pai…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
