Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · England
“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”
Peak-work percentile in the canon.
Portraits
Commons-designated 'Valued image' and the most valued portrait in the category — a crisp Bain News Service studio bust of a mustached, middle-aged Doyle, the LOC reference reprinted everywhere.
George Grantham Bain (Bain News Service), 1913
Studio portrait by the celebrated London firm Elliott & Fry, as published in The Canadian Magazine — a clean three-quarter likeness of Doyle in his mid-forties.
Elliott & Fry, 1904
Famous Quotes
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
“As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.”
About Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish physician and writer best known for creating the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, who appeared in four novels and fifty-six short stories. Conan Doyle resented being defined by Holmes and considered his historical novels his serious work. Late in life he became an ardent spiritualist, lecturing on the supernatural with the same conviction he had earlier given to detective rationalism.