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
Oscar and Lucinda a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast. This bet changes both their lives forever. The novel partly takes its inspiration from "Father and Son", the autobiography of the English poet Edmund Gosse, which describes his relationship with his father, Philip Henry Gosse. A film version released in 1997 was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Wilkinson. Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for The