Oscar Wilde

This article is about the 19th-century author. For other uses, see Oscar Wilde (disambiguation).

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigramsand plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Oscar Wilde