Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. 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 epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines.
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