OSCAR WILDE

Birth Date : 16/10/1854
Death Date : 30/11/1900

OSCAR FINGAL OFLAHERTIE WILLS WILDE WAS BORN IN DUBLIN IN 1854. HE WENT TO TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN AND THEN TO MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD, WHERE HE BEGAN TO PROPAGANDIZE THE NEW AESTHETIC (OR ART FOR ARTS SAKE) MOVEMENT. DESPITE WINNING A FIRST AND THE NEWDIGATE PRIZE FOR POETRY, WILDE FAILED TO OBTAIN AN OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP, AND WAS FORCED TO EARN A LIVING BY LECTURING AND WRITING FOR PERIODICALS. AFTER HIS MARRIAGE TO CONSTANCE LLOYD IN 1884, HE TRIED TO ESTABLISH HIMSELF AS A WRITER. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891), GRADUALLY WON HIM A REPUTATION AS A MODERN WRITER WITH AN ORIGINAL TALENT. HE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON IN 1897 AND WENT INTO AN IMMEDIATE SELF-IMPOSED EXILE ON THE CONTINENT. HE DIED IN PARIS IN IGNOMINY IN 1900.