Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright , novelist, essayist, short-story writer and master of the epigram and one-liner.
He was born in Westland Row, and lived in No. 1 Merrion Square, and attended Portora Royal School, Trinity College Dublin (1871-74) and Magdalen College, Oxford (1874-78).
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
He is now considered one of the major writers of the late nineteenth century, and is best known for the Gothic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), fairy tales, and a series of scintillating comedies culminating in his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest (18940). Wilde became a figure of both adulation and notoriety for his promotion of Aestheticism and the scandalous subject matter of his writing, though he was also one of the major social figures of the time and is now considered an early 'celebrity'.
Oscar Wilde died November 30, 1900 from meningitis, he was only 46 years old.
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