Who was Oscar Wilde?

HIS LIFE

Wilde was tried for bankruptcy and sodomy because of his relationship with his inseparable friend, Lord Alfred Douglas.
Sentenced to two years of hard labor, he wrote the "De Profundis" in prison, a novel dedicated to his lover and cause of his ruin, Alfred Douglas.
He was released from prison in 1897 and spent his last years in extreme poverty, until meningitis killed him in 1900.

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854.
He was a famous Irish author and he remains famous and much discussed for his courageous and unconventional life choices.
In 1879 he moved to London, where he wrote his famous Poems.
His fame grew when he made his first lecture tour of Aestheticism in the United States.
Wilde's literary output is very rich and includes plays, comedies, novels, essays and poems.