Author
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Their life
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. He was a central figure in the Aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century, which valued art for its own sake. Wilde is known for his only novel, *The Picture of Dorian Gray* (1890), as well as his witty sayings, his stage works, and his stories for children. In the early 1890s he was one of the most successful dramatists in London. His career ended in 1895, when he was convicted of gross indecency for having sex with men, a crime at the time.
Wilde grew up in Dublin, where his parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals. As a young man he learned French and German. He studied classics and philosophy, first at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Their teaching drew him toward Aestheticism. After
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