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Em Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Em Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edindurgh, Scotland. He studied medicine and worked as a doctor for eight years. He served as a physician in the Boer War (1899-1902).
Because he wanted to have a lot of money, he started writing. Short stories about Sherlock Holmes were published in the Strand magazin, since 1890. Over the following 40 years he published 56 short stories and four novels about Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson.
Conan Doyle prefered writin g novels about history, like The White Company (1891). Doyle was knighted in 1903 for his services to the crown. Late in life Doyle became closely interested in mysticism and wrote the 1926 book A History of Spiritualism.
Doyle was married two times. He had two children with his first wife, three with his second.
He died on July 6, 1930, of a heart attack, at his home in Crowborough, Sussex.

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