Novelist Louis Bayard adapts his critically acclaimed novel ’The Wildes’ for UCSB playwright series on July 10.

No doubt the real Oscar Wilde was dignified some of the time, ... His sin was not to hoard but to spend too freely—and to spend other people’s money as freely as his own.

And so this is where he came, Magdalen College, Oxford, and where my father wanted to come five years after Oscar's death, and his family said, "No, you've got to go to Cambridge, we don't want ...

A Portrait of Oscar Wilde, as the book is titled, is an example of a nearly lost tradition. “This is the sort of thing very posh people in England used to do in the Twenties,” says Holland.

Oscar Wilde’s birthday is Oct. 16 — he was born on that day in 1854 — and there’s a simple way to both celebrate ... Many people will recognize its best ... and the other is getting it ...

Oscar Wilde's last words: "Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means." ... "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, ...

And Oscar Wilde loved all of this, this construction of a Romantic tradition, because he saw himself as the great heir to the Romantic poets he admired. Was Chatterton a muse to Oscar Wilde, or was he ...