Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a magnificent English writer, presented the world with many magnificent works, the most famous of which is the cycle about the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. During the life of Conan Doyle worked in a variety of literary genres, becoming the author of many classic characters. His works have been screened many times over, and will probably be screened in the future, because the classics never get old.
The future writer was born in a creative family, many of whose members were noted in the field of art and literature. As a child, mother told little Conan Doyle many stories, and by his own admission, they replaced in his memory the memories of the first three years of life. His love for the detective genre was greatly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe’s work. Arthur Conan Doyle’s father was a mentally unbalanced person and suffered from alcoholism, so the family experienced some financial difficulties. Later, he became a patient at home for the mentally ill, where he remained forever. Arthur Conan Doyle’s life could have been completely different, but rich relatives provided him with a good education in a closed Jesuit college.
The first story he wrote was published in a university journal. As researchers of the biography of Conan Doyle note, after studying at a religious-oriented college, Sir Arthur hated racial and religious prejudices to the end of his life, and also became an ardent opponent of corporal punishment common in those times. Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor by education. He is considered “his” writer throughout the UK, despite the fact that he was Irish and was born in Scotland. Professor Moriarty, the chief antagonist of Sherlock Holmes, was so named by Arthur Conan Doyle because in college he was regularly harassed by classmates, brothers by the name of Moriarty.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a very strong and well-built man, and was actively involved in sports. However, his favorite sport was billiards, which does not involve significant physical exertion. Conan Doyle was a volunteer tester of one and the first prototypes of a motorcycle. Contemporaries noted that the writer was always polite and respectful, especially when dealing with ladies. The ideals of chivalry, laid down by his mother in childhood, remained with him for life. It was Arthur Conan Doyle who invented inflatable life rafts and body armor. And he was the first to suggest digging a tunnel under the English Channel to connect the UK and France. Conan Doyle himself admitted that he created the image of Sherlock Holmes, impressed by a doctor named Joseph Bell, who worked in the hospital in Edinburgh.
One day, Conan Doyle personally spent time in the shoes of a detective. Upon learning of a high-profile case to which the young man was accused of killing someone else’s livestock, he conducted an investigation, found new evidence and obtained a review of the case. In “Sherlock Holmes Notes,” Arthur Conan Doyle described such forensic methods that were not yet, in particular, the study of cigarette butts and ashes, and the search for evidence using a magnifying glass. The police took them into service only after the release of the book.
For most of his life, Conan Doyle was a supporter of the ideas of spiritualism, he believed in the existence of supernatural forces and creatures. For six months, Conan Doyle spent aboard a whaling ship hunting whales in the Arctic seas. He performed the duties of a ship’s doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle admitted that over time he hated Sherlock Holmes, as the readers demanded a continuation, and the writer himself wanted to write more serious works. He even killed his hero, but because of the demands of fans, he had to be resurrected. Conan Doyle himself considered the White Squad to be his best work, narrating about the long past times of colonial England.
At the beginning of the 20th century, after the publication of a book about Sherlock Holmes and the Baskervilles dog, Arthur Conan Doyle was the highest paid writer in the world. This is now Stephen King. During the Boer War, which was conducted in Africa, Conan Doyle took part in hostilities and performed the work of a field doctor. Already being married, he fell in love with another woman. These feelings he kept in secret, and married his beloved 10 years later, when his first wife died. For his contribution to the development of literature, Arthur Conan Doyle was granted the nobility and the title of knight. Conan Doyle actively demanded the abolition of British laws that prosecuted mediums. The most complete biography of Arthur Conan Doyle is reflected in the book “True Conan Doyle”, written by his son Adrian.
