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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were an Irish-Catholic family. They had a prominent position in the Art world. His mother was well-educated and his father was a chronic alcoholic. Arthur had to go to a Jesuit boarding school when he was 9 years old. He loathed the bigotry that surrounded his studies and he rebelled at corporal punishment. When he was seventeen, he was surprisingly normal. He decided to take a medical career instead of an artistic career like most of his family. Sherlock Holmes' persona may have been based upon one of his teachers, Dr. Joseph Bell. His first short story was called //The Mystery of Sasassa Valley.// When he was 20 years old he was offered a position on a whaling vessel. He took the position and later wrote his first story about the sea called //Captain of the Polar Star.// In 1885 he married Louisa Hawkins. The novel that started his rise to fame was //__A Study in Scarlet__//. His character, Sherlock Holmes, became world famous. In 1892 Louisa gave birth to a son, Kingsley, which he called the "chief event of his life". In 1893 he wrote //__The Final Problem__// in which Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunged to their deaths. His wife developed Tuberculosis and he spent most of his time caring for her and writing. He fell in love with Jean Leckie the first time he saw her in March 1897. In 1901 he wrote //__The Hound of the Baskervilles__//. In which Holmes reappeared. He volunteered as a medical doctor in the Boer War, he was sent to Africa where he fought against microbes instead of bullets. While caring for Louisa, he saw Jean Leckie discreetly, played golf, driving fast cars, and many other exciting things. Louisa died on July 4th 1906. Arthur married Jean Leckie on September 18, 1907. He tried his hand at a number of plays. When World War I broke out he submitted his ideas to the War Office. Most of them found his ideas irritating but there were some exceptions. One of them was Winston Churchill. He lost his son, Kingsley, his brother, his 2 brothers-in-laws and his 2 nephews. He started writing about Spiritualism. He died September 7, 1930.
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The Official Website of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Biography" March 12, 2009. 
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