Oscar Wilde 1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The book was the basis for the 1997 film "Wilde", directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, "The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde," offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Thomas Wright's "Oscar's Books" (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. After tracking down many books that once belonged to Wilde's Tite Street library (dispersed at the time of his trials),
Eduardo Wilde Eduardo Wilde Eduardo Wilde (June 15, 1844 – September 5, 1913) was an Argentine physician, politician, and writer, and among the most prominent intellectual figures of the modernizing Generation of '80 in Argentina. Eduardo Faustino Wilde was born in Tupiza, Bolivia, in 1844, to a mother from Tucumán (Argentina), and an English Argentine father from Buenos Aires. His father, Col. Diego Wilde a relative of the writer Oscar Wilde, temporarily fled from Argentina to Bolivia during the rule of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned to Argentina after the latter’s fall in 1852. He was raised in Concepción del