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- 2. Overview British novelist, short story writer, poet, doctor of medicine Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May
- 3. As a child… His father, a chronic alcoholic, was later committed to an insane asylum He
- 4. As a teenager… His wealthy family members paid for him to go to boarding school Athletic:
- 5. As a doctor… Opened his own medical practice, but was moderately successful In his down time,
- 6. As an adult… Married Louise “Touie” Hawkins “gentle and amiable” They had 2 children. She died
- 7. As an author… Wrote an article about the Boer War, and was knighted in 1902 Wrote
- 8. Death Found clutching his chest in the hall of his home in East Sussex, England Died
- 9. Major works Sherlock Holmes: 4 novels & 56 short stories Originally published short stories monthly in
- 10. Sherlock Holmes Most famous fictional detective of all time Based on Conan Doyle’s medical professor, Dr.
- 11. World’s Best Detective Courageous Clever Attention to details Eccentric
- 12. Dr. John Watson Assistant, sidekick Narrator – loyal, gentleman, observes Average intelligence Foil
- 13. R.I.P. Holmes After two novels and 24 short stories, Conan Doyle grew tired of Holmes and
- 14. But then… While vacationing in 1901, ACD was playing golf with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
- 15. Conan Doyle could NOT pass this up… and he didn’t really want to invent a new
- 16. Holmes returns! Eventually, Conan Doyle did decide to bring back Holmes, and he did so in
- 17. Weird, but true… ACD wrote a book called The Coming of the Fairies (1921). He was
- 18. The Cottingley Fairies
- 19. Legacy of Holmes “Christopher Clausen asserts confidently that ‘few characters in all of literature are as
- 20. Ranks 9th on the Fictional 100 Most Influential Characters in World Literature “Each generation wants to
- 21. Film “Holmes’s life in films is even more spectacular. The Guinness World Records 2000 lists him
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