Photograph: Bettmann via GettyBut according to Harris’s Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916), nothing could coax him into writing a single line. Frank Harris was also a short-story writer and a biographer of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Photograph: Bettmann via GettyBy the 1880s he resurfaced in London as Frank Harris, editor, critic and social operator, whose brilliance mixed uneasily with volatility. Statue of Oscar Wilde on Dublin’s Merrion Square. A plaque on his final residence identifies him simply as “Frank Harris, Irish journalist and writer and faithful guest of the Côte d’Azur”.
