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May 24, 2006
Conon Doyle's Birthday!
The creator of Sherlock Holmes would be pretty old today - 147 to be precise! Here's a great synopsis of Doyle's life:
It was on therapsheetblogspot.com, a new feature of JanuaryMagazine.com.
"Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, to Irish parents, on May 22, 1859.
He died of a heart attack on July 7, 1930,
in the small town of Crowborough, in Sussex, England.
In between, he worked as an ophthalmologist, took a voyage on an Arctic whaler, popularized skiing in Switzerland, did a stint as a doctor in the Second Boer War, stood twice (unsuccessfully) for election to the British Parliament, invented safety aids for use in World War I, tried to prove the existence of fairies, and incidentally created the best-known private investigator (and part-time cocaine addict) in fiction -- a character he came to despise so much, that he tried to kill him off at Reichenbach Falls, in Meiringen, Switzerland.
But Holmes' fans refused to accept this death, and wrote so many letters to Conan Doyle, that the novelist finally relented and brought Sherlock back to life.
The creation ultimately outlived the creator."
Whew! A very busy man!!
Posted by mysterygamers at May 24, 2006 06:50 PM