Jade Sylvan Jade Sylvan Jade Sylvan (born September 9, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet, author, performer, producer, and performing artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are the author of "Kissing Oscar Wilde" and "The Spark Singer", a collection of poetry. They have been called a "risque queer icon" by the "Boston Globe". Their most recent book, "Kissing Oscar Wilde" (Write Bloody Publishing), a novelized memoir about the author's experience as a touring poet in Paris, was a finalist for the New England Book Award and the Bisexual Book Award. Sylvan has had pieces published in "The Washington Post", BuzzFeed, "The
Biographies of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony in New York in 1882. In 2003 Merlin Holland edited the uncensored transcripts of Wilde's trials for publication. The book contained a 50-page introduction by Merlin Holland, and a foreword by John Mortimer QC. It was published as "Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde" in the UK, and as simply "The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde" in some other countries. In 1912 Arthur Ransome published "Oscar Wilde, a critical study", a literary study of Wilde. This briefly mentioned Wilde's life, but resulted in Ransome (and The Times Book Club) being sued for