Most of these columns appeared in the weekly Sparks Tribune and the Reno News & Review. Thanks to both papers for courageously publishing columns and articles that no other newspaper or magazine would have printed.

Oscar Wilde, one of my all-time favorite people in history. Brilliant, witty, wise. Epigramist. Versatile: playwright, short-story writer, novelist, poet, social critic, essayist and book reviewer. Marvelous conversationalist. Classicist. Scholar. Dandy. Esthete. Humanist.
Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest multi-faced geniuses ever to grace the Earth.
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