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WHEN HARRY MET ARTHUR: A FRIENDSHIP RE-CREATED

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20060122
Author:Jon Lellenberg

One of the 20th century's least likely friendships was that between Harry Houdini, the great magician, and Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. One was an American Jew, born abroad in 1874 but raised in rural Wisconsin, the other a Briton born in Edinburgh roughly a generation earlier. Houdini left school for the unrespectable life of the stage; Doyle became a physician, turned to literature, and was knighted. If their paths were to cross, it should have been at a distance, according to the class-ridden mores of the day, as performer and audience. Yet in 1920, an ...

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