A Victorian author who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1822. He attended a Jesuit boarding school in England for 7 years. He later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and sought a career as a doctor. He wrote short stories and novels in his early life. He is most famous for creating the character Sherlock Holmes and writing novels and short stories featuring the detective. Some of his most famous works include A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

1. A Victorian Author

2. What Was His Childhood
Like???
 Was born on May 22
 Edinburgh, Scotland
 He was fond of his mother
 Went to Jesuit boarding school in
England for 7 years

3. Life As A Young Man
 Sought out life as a doctor at Edinburgh
 Met James Barrie and Robert Louis
Stevenson
 Wrote short stories, Sasassa
Valley, chamber’s journal, American
Tale, London Society

4. Life As A Young Manpart 2
 Offered job as surgeon on ship
 Arctic Circle
 Book Captain of the Pole Star
 Returned to studies in 1880, received
diploma year later

5. Life As An Author
Started practice in Portsmouth,
married Louisa Hawkins in 1885
 1886 started novel titled Tangled Skein
 2 years later Beeton’s Christmas Annual
under A Study in Scarlet
 Created a dichotomy in his life

6. List of His Novels
 Beyond the City Sign of the Four, The
 Desert Drama: Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko", A
Sir Nigel
 Doings Of Raffles Haw, The
 Duet, A Study In Scarlet, A
 Firm of Girdlestone, The Uncle Bernac: A Memory of
 Great Shadow, The the Empire
 Hound of the Baskervilles, The
Valley of Fear, The
 Lost World, The
 Micah Clarke White Company, The
 Mystery of Cloomber, The
 Poison Belt, The
 Refugees: A Tale Of Two Continents, The

7. Movie 
 Case of the Cunningham Heritage

8. Interesting Facts
 Advocated steel helmets for soldiers
 Introduced skiing to Switzerland
 Drunk dad

9. HisLegacy Lives On!
 Hundreds versions of Sherlock Holmes
made into movies and plays

10. Bibliography
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle Home Page. Web. 14 Dec.
2011.
<http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/>.