Oscar Wilde was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London.

He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Ernest, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and Salom.

During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis, and later, The Ballad of Reading Gao.