Oscar Wilde, the subject of an illuminating and tragic new biography by Matthew Sturgis. (Napoleon Sarony / Universal History Archive / Getty Images) Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's 30 years since Richard Ellmann, the biographer of Joyce and Yeats, wrote his monumental life of Oscar Wilde, which was such a warm ...

A forthcoming biography of Oscar Wilde reveals for the first time the likely identity of the famous author’s mystery San Francisco lover. In his new book “Oscar: A Life“, biographer Matthew Sturgis ...

Wilde’s death, Merlin Holland comes to terms with his family’s complicated history in After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he ...

A review of "The Pocket Biography Of Oscar Wilde", edited By Tony Potter. What is tragic is that Oscar Wilde seemed not to believe in evil, or that it could ever lay a hand on him, at least at first.

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A new opera based on the life of Oscar Wilde, with countertenor David Daniels in the title role, will have its world premiere at the 2013 Santa Fe Opera festival. Co-commissioned and co-produced with ...

Over a century after his death amid poverty and great notoriety in a shabby Parisian hotel in 1900, Oscar Wilde is world-famous, which would probably have delighted him, but perhaps not for long. Look ...