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Article: Conan Doyle.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Discount Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle's two semi-autobiographical works - The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark-Munro Letters (1895) - and his actual autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924), and there have been thirteen biographical accounts published in the last sixty-four years.
The earliest was John Lamond's Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir (1931), which was the first to appear after Doyle's death on July 7th, 1930. This was followed, in 1943, By Conan Doyle: His Life and Art by Hesketh Pearson, which still remains probably the best, and certainly the most readable, of them all. Then, in 1945, Doyle's son, Adrian, published The True Conan Doyle, a 24-page ...