Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse 16 October 1854. His father was a successful adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse and his mother a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse in the aesthetic movement. After he adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse, he moved to London to pursue a literary adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse.

His output was diverse. A first volume of his adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse was published in 1881 but as well as composing adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse, he contributed to publications such as the 'Pall Mall Gazette', wrote adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse stories and published a adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891). His greatest talent was for writing adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse, and he produced a string of extremely popular comedies adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'An Ideal Husband (1895)' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895). 'Salomé' was adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse in Paris in 1896.

Drama and tragedy marred Wilde's adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse life. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse 'Bosie'. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse being homosexual. Wilde lost and, after adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse of his private life were revealed during the trial, was adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse two years of hard labour. While in prison he adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse a long letter to Douglas, posthumously published under the adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse 'De Profundis' . His wife took their children to Switzerland and adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse the name 'Holland'. Wilde was released with his adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse irrevocably damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse of his life in Europe, publishing 'The Ballad of adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse Gaol' in 1898. He died adoptedarrestedcareercomposeddetailseducatedfairyfathergraduatedhealthinincludinginvolvednicknamednovelofonperformedplayspoetryprivateReadingrestsonssurgeontitletoverse Paris on 30 November 1900.
(adapted from BBC.co.uk Historic Figures)