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In Literary Biography (1971), the inaugural lecture for his appointment as Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Richard Ellmann affectionately quotes James Joyce's description of the biographer as the "biografiend" and Oscar...

The Paradox of Oscar Wilde Fortunate in His Biographer Oscar Wilde By Richard Ellmann Knopf. 680 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock OSCAR WILDE loved poets and was willing to admit critics into the ranks of great artists, but he...

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters Edited by Merlin Holland Carroll & Graf. 384 pages, $27.95 ONE HUNDRED YEARS after the death of Oscar Wilde in 1900, all of his known surviving letters--1,562 of them--were published, edited by his grandson,...

Sheridan Morley, a theater critic, broadcaster and author of many show-business biographies, has died at the age of 65.Morley, who wrote for such publications as The Times of London, Punch, The Spectator and the International Herald Tribune, died Friday at home. The BBC reported that...

Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."Students participating in a novel design contest might rephrase the famous quotation to something like, "Art imitates video games that imitate life."Students at Parsons The New School for Design in New...