Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 and became one of the most celebrated dramatists of the nineteenth century, as well as a distinguished novelist and poet. He was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalene College, Oxford, where he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his long poem, Ravenna. His most important works include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He died in 1900.