7075942 Oscar Wilde, c.1882 (albumen print) by Sarony, Napoleon (1821-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London\'s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray , his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death).