Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 â€" 30 November
1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different
forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the
most popular playwrights in London. 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 for
consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age
46.Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young
Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde
read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist,
first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated
with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his
tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to
London into fashionable cultural and social circles. Oscar Wilde Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter