ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)is chiefly remembered for his celebrated creation of detective Sherlock Holmes, whose brilliant solutions to a wide variety of crimes began in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887) first published in the "Strand Magazine" and collected in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1894), "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" etc. His friend, Dr Watson, with whom he shares rooms in Baker Street, attends him throughout most of his adventures. The success was immediate and lasting, and Arthur Conan Doyle rose rapidly to prominence as a result. The stories of Edgar Allan Poe and of Emile...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)is chiefly remembered for his celebrated creation of detective Sherlock Holmes, whose brilliant solutions to a wide vari...
FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was born in Minnesota and educated at Princeton. His first novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), made him instantly famous. Shortly after he married the glamorous Zelda Sayre, and together they embarked on a life of big spending and party going. He published stories in fashionable periodicals such as the "Saturday Evening," "Vanity Fair" and "The Smart Set," in which he chronicled the mood and manners of the times; these were collected as "Flappers and Philosophers" (1920) and "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). "The Beautiful and Damned"(1922), a novel about...
FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was born in Minnesota and educated at Princeton. His first novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), made him instan...