The future writer was born into a creative family, many members of which distinguished themselves in the field of art and literature. As a child, his mother told little Conan Doyle many stories, and by his own admission, they replaced in his memory the memories of the first three years of life. His love for the detective genre was greatly influenced by the work "Golden Beetle" by Edgar Allan Poe (interesting facts about Edgar Allan Poe). Arthur Conan Doyle's father was a mentally unbalanced man and suffered from alcoholism, so the family was experiencing certain financial difficulties. He later became a patient at a mental hospital, where he remained forever.Arthur Conan Doyle's life might have been very different, but his wealthy relatives provided him with a good education in a closed Jesuit college.
