Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin (Ireland).

He was a brilliant student. Wilde, won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he achieved success and awards not only in the classroom but by his writings.In fact, he won the Newdigate Prize for his poem "Ravenna" (1878). Just three years later published his first collection of poems, which launched the career of Wilde, leading to lecture throughout the United States for one year.

In 1884, after his tour of North America and Paris, Wilde married Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan. From there begins the most fruitful and creative period of his career, publishing numerous works within the genre of storytelling as compilations "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (1888) and "A House of Pomegranates" (1892).

But the work will certainly be most remembered Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the only novel published author and would be the subject of voracious criticism implicit eroticism between men, who do not sit well with the society of the time . However, this book has come in good health to this day and has undergone multiple film adaptations, who wanted to explore the myth of eternal youth.

After the success in the genre of stories and novel, Wilde explored the field of theater with "Lady Windermere's Fan". So good was the reception of it which continued writing as outstanding works in his career as "A Woman of No Importance," "An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest," which established him as a living playwright.

In 1891, Wilde met Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry, and soon begin a romance that makes them inseparable. Four years later, the writer sued the father of "Bosie" defamation and who had accused him of homosexuality. Wilde withdrew the case, but was arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to prison.

Away from his family, as Constance fled to Switzerland with her children after the scandal, Wilde still writing during his confinement. Of this time "De Profundis" a long letter to her lover in which he recalls his relationship and reaffirms their actions arises. After his release writes "Ballad of Reading Gaol 'poem about the relationship between love and social conventions, between life and death, all under the agony of his confinement.

Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900 in Paris.