By 1891 he had given up medicine entirely and was supporting his family (a wife and two small children) solely by his writing.ĭetective fiction was a fairly new genre when Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in “A Study in Scarlet,” published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887.
He was not a great success as a doctor, which had the benefit of giving him plenty of spare time to continue his writing career. After completing his studies, Conan Doyle made repeated attempts to establish a medical practice.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of many talents and many interests, but he is best known as the creator of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Ĭonan Doyle published his first story in 1879, while he was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh.
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