Arthur Conan Doyle: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The number of biographies and biographical studies of Arthur Conan Doyle is vast. Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999); and Russell Miller, The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle (2008), are accessible and readable. Michael Sims, Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes (2017), explores the entanglements between Conan Doyle and his most famous fictional character. Andrew Lycett, The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2007; also published as Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes), provides a nuanced and authoritative view. Martin Booth, The Doctor, the Detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle (1997; also published as The Doctor and the Detective, 2000), is anecdotal. Conan Doyle’s medical career is addressed in Ely Liebow, Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes (1982, reissued 2007); and Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key, Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle (1984). Kelvin I. Jones, Conan Doyle and the Spirits: The Spiritualist Career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1989), details how his conviction of spiritualism expanded from a casual interest to the passion that engulfed his life.
Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley (eds.), Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (2007), presents Conan Doyle’s private correspondence with annotations. Jon L. Lellenberg (ed.), The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographers in Search of a Life (1987), considers the challenges of writing about Conan Doyle. Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, new rev. and expanded ed. (2000), a superlative, scrupulously detailed work that summarizes all that Conan Doyle published, remains a useful bibliographic tool.
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: PBS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Reluctant Creator of Sherlock Holmes. | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 03, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Arthur Conan Doyle - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Mar 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Arthur and Sherlock. | Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Electric Scotland - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of a Literary Ophthalmologist. | Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Arthur Conan Doyle's eerie vision of the future of war. | Sep 16, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Aug 09, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Reluctant Creator of Sherlock Holmes. | Dec 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia - Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | May 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate. | Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 15, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Undiscovered Scotland - Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | Sep 21, 2018 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 23, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Oct 11, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). | May 05, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 01, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Notable Biographies - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Official Website of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate - Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Added photograph. | Apr 15, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Museum of Unnatural Mystery - Conan Doyle's Trick. | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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| Added new Web site: Literature.org - The Online Literature Library - Arthur Conan Doyle. | Jul 07, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 14, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |