Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Edinburgh, Scotland · British

British author, born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in Sussex in 1930. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began writing while a student. He created Sherlock Holmes in 1887 with A Study in Scarlet, and wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories about him.

Source: Undiscovered Scotland