Menu Close

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was an author, playwright, and poet. In 1985, after having an affair with a man, he was sentenced to two years in prison for gross indecency.

Names Oscar Wilde (Main) BE [n77.274] Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (altName)

BE [“Oscar Wilde Biography,” Biography, 2 April 2014, https://www.biography.com/people/oscar-wilde-9531078]

Related Pages Oscar Wilde on LGLC
Oscar Wilde on VIAF
Birth Date 1854/10/16
Birth Place https://lglc.ca/place/Dublin,IRE/
Death Date 1900/11/30
Identities Homosexual

BG [“Oscar Wilde Biography,” Biography, 2 April 2014, https://www.biography.com/people/oscar-wilde-9531078]

Irish

BG [“Oscar Wilde Biography,” Biography, 2 April 2014, https://www.biography.com/people/oscar-wilde-9531078]