Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde, is an author living in France. His publications include IRISH PEACOCK and SCARLET MARQUESS, the first complete, verbatim record of the libel trial that ultimately brought Wilde to ruin, and THE WILDE ALBUM, a pictorial biography of Oscar Wilde. He is also the co-editor of THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE, as well as the editor of an abridged and commentated version of Oscar’s letters, OSCAR WILDE: A Life in Letters.

After Oscar’s conviction in 1895, his wife, Constance, and their two sons were forced to move abroad and change their name to Holland. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde.

Books by Merlin Holland

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

by Merlin Holland - Biography, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris, his reputation in tatters, exhausted by scandal and prison life. While the details of his life in the limelight are well known, often ignored are the reverberations of the Wilde scandal over the decades following his trial and death. With pathos, humor and his grandfather’s signature wit, Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde’s posthumous reputation.