Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, born on October 16, 1854, and died November 30, 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 epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. He was imprisoned for 2 years for being accused of homosexuality. He died homeless in Paris at the age of 46 years.