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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish-born writer of many great works of literature in English such as, The Picture of Dorian Gray,  and so on. After righting the previously mentioned book, he was said to have distanced himself from his family and take on a sexual double life hooking up with a man, Lord Alfred Douglas, but was accused for it and was sent to hard labor a few years before he died.

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