Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46.
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Full name at birth | Oscar Fingal O`Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Claim to fame | Best known for his philosophical novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890/1891), his epigrams, and plays such as "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895)
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Date of birth | 16 October 1854
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Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland
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Date of death | 29 November 1900
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Age | 46 (age at death)
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Place of death | Paris, France
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Cause of death | Cerebral Meningitis
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Occupation | Poet, playwright, novelist, journalist, essayist, critic, editor, aesthete, dandy, letter writer
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Height | 6' 3" (190 cm)
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Distinctive feature | Tall stature
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High school | Portora Royal School at Enniskillen
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