Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific British writer and physician whose creation of Sherlock Holmes forever revolutionized the detective fiction genre. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where a sharp-minded professor inspired the deductive reasoning methods of his famous detective.
In 1887, he introduced Holmes and Watson in A Study in Scarlet. While Doyle wrote in many genres including historical fiction, science fiction, and poetry his four novels and 56 short stories featuring the brilliant resident of 221B Baker Street brought him unprecedented global fame. Later in life, Doyle became a passionate investigator of Spiritualism, dedicating much of his time and wealth to researching the paranormal.
