Oscar Wild

Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic, and a celebrity in late 19th century London. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His father was a successful surgeon and his mother was a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. After he graduated, he moved to London to be a writer. A first volume of his poetry was published in 1881 and then he published a novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1891). His greatest talent was for writing plays, and he produced extremely popular comedies including ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ (1892), ‘An Ideal Husband’ (1895) and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1895). He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two sons. He spent the rest of his life in Europe, publishing ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 November 1900.