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Arthur Conan Doyle

출생: May 22, 1859 – Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician best known for detective fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. He also wrote historical novels, science fiction, and essays. Holmes became one of literature’s most influential and widely translated fictional characters.

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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, into an Irish Catholic family marked by financial instability but rich in storytelling and artistic temperament. He was educated at Jesuit schools before entering the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he trained as a physician. One of the most important influences on his development was Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor known for drawing striking conclusions from tiny physical clues. Bell’s habits of observation and deduction later helped shape Sherlock Holmes. As a young man, Doyle also traveled as a ship’s doctor on Arctic and West African voyages, experiences that widened his world and sharpened his appetite for vivid, eventful narrative.

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You see, but you do not observe
-A Scandal in Bohemia
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
-The Sign of the Four
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
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It is my business to know what other people don't know
-The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Data! data! data! I can't make bricks without clay
-The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact
-The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps
-A Study in Scarlet
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius
-The Valley of Fear

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"Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes"

Britannica

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame"

Penguin Random House

"Holmes is a mesmerising creation and Conan Doyle a master storyteller"

The Times

"Arthur Conan Doyle is unique in simultaneously bringing the curtain down on an era and raising one on another"

Stephen Fry

"The name of Arthur Conan Doyle has become synonymous with classic detective fiction"

Poetry Foundation

"Arthur Conan Doyle secretly hated his creation Sherlock Holmes and blamed the cerebral detective for denying him recognition"

The Guardian

"Start a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty"

Michael Dirda

"Author Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the wildly popular detective character Sherlock Holmes"

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"For Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, the proof was in the pictures"

Smithsonian Magazine

"Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly, because he took his art seriously"

G.K. Chesterton

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