Biographies: May 22
Arthur Conan Doyle
Featured Biography Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887)

Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born this day in 1859, created Sherlock Holmes, one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction and a prototype for the modern mastermind detective.