Oscar Wilde

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(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) 

Oscar Wilde was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist who is known for his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). 

He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake, and he was the object of notorious civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality and ending in his imprisonment (1895–97). Despite his fall from society’s grace at the end of his life, Wilde came to be regarded as the personification of wit and sophistication.

Introduction from Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde

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