I am still at heart - and always will be - just a punk kid with tattoos.

Angelina Jolie, 1975 –
Oscar Wilde biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Oscar Wilde

Author Name:

Oscar Wilde

Born As:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Other Names:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Born:

16 Oct 1854

Died:

30 Nov 1900




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Writer and playwright                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

Ravenna - 1878
Poems - 1881
The Sphinx - 1894
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - 1898

Plays:

Vera; or, The Nihilists - 1880
The Duchess of Padua - 1883
Salomé - French version - 1893, first performed in Paris 1896
Lady Windermere's Fan - 1892
A Woman of No Importance - 1893
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley - 1894
An Ideal Husband - 1895
The Importance of Being Earnest - 1895 - text
La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication.

Prose:
The Canterville Ghost - 1887
The Happy Prince and Other Stories - 1888, fairy tales 
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - 1891
Intentions - 1891, critical dialogues and essays
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1891, Wilde's only novel
A House of Pomegranates - 1891, fairy tales
The Soul of Man under Socialism - First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904
De Profundis - 1905
The Rise of Historical Criticism - published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908
The Letters of Oscar Wilde - 1960 This was re-released in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.

Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal - Paris, 1893 has been attributed to Wilde, but was more likely a combined effort by a several of Wilde's friends, which he may have edited.                                                                                      
Mother Jane Francesca Elgee
Father Sir William Wilde
Wife Constance Lloyd, two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.                                                                                      
                                                                                      
Imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency”.
Spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth.