Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. His mother was a journalist, and his father also a gifted writer. Oscar was thus exposed to and appreciative of art from a young age. He attended Trinity College in Dublin and Magdalen College at Oxford from which he graduated with honours in 1878.
Wilde wrote and published nearly all of his major work in the 1890’s. His greatest successes were his social comedies or plays. His most successful were Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
He died suddenly of acute meningitis on 20 November, 1900