Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (original) (raw)

Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde

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October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900Born in Dublin, Ireland, Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford where he achieved a rare double-first. Wilde was known for his flamboyance and wit, but rejected by many for his unorthodox views and bohemian lifestyle. He wrote stories, essays, plays, poems and one novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray". "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."Oscar Wilde’s attributed last words, as he lay dying in a drab Paris bedroom. Raised: Oxford, May 25, 1875Excluded for nonpayment: January 22, 1883_Apollo University Lodge No. 357_ Source: Denslow; "Brother Winston. Yasha Beresiner. MQ Magazine, John Jackson, ed. London. Issue 3, October 2002. p. 8