Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin.

He graduated from Oxford university in 1878 and moved to London, where he achieved early celebrity and notoriety.
In 1881 he met a handsome young poet named Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he established a homosexual relationship.
In 1882 he visited America for a lengthy successful lecture tour.
He married Constance Mary in 1884, and had with her two sons.

In the Spring of 1895 Wilde was arrested and sentenced to jail, with hard labor, for two years. He was accused of Homosexuality by the marquis of Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas's father.

Wilde recklessly sued for liable, lost the case, and was thereupon arrested and convicted for what was then a serious criminal offense.

After leaving jail, Wilde immigrated to France, where he lived the last three years of his life under an assumed name.
Wilde is buried in Paris.