Arthur Conan Doyle by: 蔡岳霖, 呂尚恩, 江晨緯, 朱芸
Profile: Born in Scotland, however UK citizen. Novelist, short story writer, poet, physician Married twice, father of 5 children. Famous for his crime fictions Notable work: Stories of Sherlock Holmes.
Fun Facts: Had a medical career prior to his literary career. He was too fat to fight. The reason why he couldn’t become a soldier in the Boer War was because he was overweight. Instead, he volunteered as a ship's doctor and sailed to Africa. He ran for parliament twice. He helped to popularize skiing. (Conan Doyle was the first to bring skiing from Scandinavia to Switzerland)
Writing career • A study of scarlet first named A Tangled Skein • A Study in Scarlet was the first novel to introduced Sherlock Holmes • The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes was finished in 1928. It's his last twelve stories about Holmes
Pictures They’re actually all about the same...
Death He died peacefully in his garden holding a flower, and he told his wife she was beautiful. 7-7-1930