Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?

Who wrote the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”? Oscar Wilde wrote it. It was his only novel and became one of the defining works of late-Victorian Gothic and aesthetic literature.

The story follows Dorian Gray, a young man whose portrait ages and records the moral damage caused by his hedonistic life while he remains physically youthful. Wilde uses the supernatural premise to explore beauty, influence, vanity, and the cost of separating outward appearance from inner character.

The work first appeared in a shortened form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in July 1890. After critics attacked its perceived immorality, Wilde revised and expanded it into the 1891 book edition, adding six chapters and the famous preface about art and the artist.

A common mix-up is confusing Wilde with Arthur Conan Doyle, who was also commissioned for a story at the same London dinner in 1889. Doyle wrote The Sign of the Four; Wilde wrote Dorian Gray.