Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (article 21 june 1911)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an article published in The Tatler on 21 june 1911.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose latest book, "The Last Galley," is proving a great success, comes of a clever stock of writers and wielders of the pen and the brush. His father was an artist and his uncle was Richard Doyle — known familiarly as Dicky Doyle — who was a well- known contributor to Punch," while his grandfather was the famous caricaturist who hid his identity under the initials, "H. B." Sir Arthur started life as a doctor, taking his M.D. at Edinburgh, but very soon took literature as his real profession, getting his first story, "The Mystery of the Sassassa Valley," published in Chambers's Journal "in 1878. It was not till nine years later, however, that Sherlock Holmes was introduced to the public in "A Study in Scarlet." "Micah Clarke" followed, and was a greater success, and then came the famous "Sherlock Holmes" detective stories that at last made him famous all the world over. His incursions into drama have been fortunate also. His stirring little play, A Story of Waterloo, was produced by Sir Henry Irving and became one of his favourite pieces.
