Easy like Sunday morning: on authors

‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact’

May 19, 2022 05:05 pm | Updated 05:05 pm IST

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Easy like Sunday morning: on authors
Vintage engraving of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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1 / 10 | Born on May 22, 1859, this man played cricket with James Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and P.G. Wodehouse. He trained to be an ophthalmologist, but due to a lack of patients he started writing. Because he was overweight, he was not inducted by the British army; but he was knighted for writing a pamphlet defending British actions in South Africa. In 1912, he became one of the first to use the word ‘dinosaur’ in fiction. Who was this author whose works have become globally famous?
Answer : Arthur Conan Doyle
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