Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (born 1854)

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. Regarded by most commentators as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era, Wilde is best remembered for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays, and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.

November 30 is the 334th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 31 days remain until the end of the year.