Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Wikipedia Born : October 16, 1854, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Died : November 30, 1900, French Third Republic Full name : Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Plays : The Importance of Being Earnest , Salome , MORE Quotes Be yourself; everyone else is already taken We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. I can resist everything except temptation. "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." -- Oscar Wilde in conversation with André Gide "It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." --from THE PICTURE OF D