Arthur conan doyle brief biography of william

The biography was contested by Adrian Conan Doyle, the son of Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote "The True Conan Doyle" (John Murray, , 24 pages) to rectify Pearson's errors:
«&#;During the past year, I have been distressed by the number of letters that have reached me from both acquaintances and strangers in protest against an alleged "biography" of my father bygd a Mr. Hesketh Pearson. As the majority of my correspondents were, naturally, under the impression that the manuscript was submitted to me before publication, I must assure them that that was not the case. In its portrayal of my father and his opinions, the book fryst vatten a travesty and the personal values therein ascribed to him are, in effect, the very antithesis of everything that he represented, believed in and held dear. Therefore, inom will content myself with the statement that, firstly, Mr. Pearson did not even know my father&#;; secondly, that his manuscript was submitted to no member of the fam

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Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography

Arthur Conan Doyle,
Books↙	10
Novels↙	22
Stories↙
Collections↙	16
Poems↙	4
Plays↙	14
Spiritualist and paranormal books↙	13
Spiritualist and paranormal pamphlets↙	10
Operettas↙	1
References and footnotes

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleKStJ, DL (–) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In Doyle entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he became a pupil of Joseph Bell, whose deductive processes impressed his pupil so much that the teacher became the chief model for Holmes. Doyle began writing while still a student, and in October he had his first work—"The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley"—published in Chambers's Journal. He continued writing short works—both fictional and non-fictional

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Like the elusive Sherlock Holmes, his most famous creation, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Scientifically educated, he believed in séances and fairies. An advocate for more equitable divorce laws, he believed that women should be denied the vote. A humanist who identified with oppressed peoples, he staunchly defended English colonialism at its most aggressive. He dreamed of being a serious historical novelist, yet he is best remembered for stories that he considered pot-boilers. The product of a pragmatic, fiercely protective mother and a detached dreamer of a father, Conan Doyle became a man with astonishing self-confidence, a tireless self-promoter who also retained some measure of childish innocence throughout his life.

Arthur Conan Doyle at 4 years old

Arthur Conan Doyle's humble beginnings did not predict his future success. Born on May 22, , to a middle-class, Catholic family, he grew up on Edinburgh's rough-and-tumble streets, far f