Who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, and which one was the first?”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was published in 1892 and was the third Holmes’ story to be published. Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scotsman who was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, to Irish parents. He attended Edinburgh University and it is rumoured that he based the character of holmes on his University Professor, Joseph Bell. This was never publicly revealed at the time, no doubt due to some ‘poetic licence’ which had been taken with the charcter. Holmes had a significant yearning for the use of opiates. He was also portrayed as a character who suffered from bi-polar disorder (a condition formerly known as manic depression). It is not thought that Professor Bell shared these characteristics, more the analytical and observational skills which Holmes had so acutely developed. Conan Doyle wote many other works, besides Sherlock Holmes books, including the ‘Professor Challenger’ stories, but none are as universally remembered in the same was as the Sherlock Hol
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an English father of Irish descent, Charles Altamont Doyle, and an Irish mother, née Mary Foley, who had married in 1855.Although he is now referred to as “Conan Doyle”, the origin of this compound surname is uncertain.Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become an agnostic. From 1876 to 1881, he studied medicine at t
