Frank Harris

Frank Harris was an Irish-American editor, journalist and author who was one of the most colourful and controversial literary figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in 1856 in Galway, he moved to America as a young man and later became a prominent editor and literary tastemaker in London, editing the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. Oscar Wilde is his intimate biographical portrait of his friend Oscar Wilde, written from personal knowledge and offering a vivid and sympathetic account of Wilde's genius, his trial and imprisonment, and his final years in exile. Harris's biography remains one of the most important firsthand accounts of Wilde's life, though like much of Harris's writing it has been questioned for its reliability and self-aggrandisement. Harris was a friend and contemporary of many of the greatest literary figures of his era. His audiobooks and books offer readers a vivid, if unreliable, window into the literary world of the fin de siècle. He died in 1931.