English novelist who created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, born in 1859 in Edinburgh, England, to a family of Irish descent.
After studying medicine at university and opening his own practice, he wrote novels in his spare time and published his first work, "A Study in Scarlet," in 1887, to little popular acclaim. However, his popularity exploded with the publication of "The Sign of the Four" in 1890.
After that, he continued to publish his works tirelessly. Although Holmes's popularity remained unshakable, Doyle himself was not pleased with Holmes's fame. He continued to be active outside of fiction, serving as a physician in the South African War and being knighted in 1902.
But in his later years, he lost his beloved son in World War I. Doyle gradually became interested in a certain subject. Psychic phenomena.
Through communication with the spirit world, he heard the voice of his deceased son, and since then he believed in psychic phenomena and the afterlife, eventually joining the British Association for Psychic Research. However, he became dissatisfied with the association's efforts to expose and elucidate psychic phenomena, leading to his resignation from the organization.
In 1920, Doyle received a photograph. It was a picture of a girl accompanied by fairies. After conducting various investigations, Doyle concluded that the photo was true, and as soon as it was published, there was a huge public outcry.
Later, in 1966, the woman who took the photo herself confessed that it was a hoax, proving that the photo was a fake, but this was already 36 years after Doyle's death.
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