Wilde in Amer­i­ca chron­i­cles Oscar Wilde’s year-long lec­ture tour of Amer­i­ca in 1882 — near­ly a decade before he would write any­thing that we remem­ber him for today. In an aston­ish­ing feat of self-mar­ket­ing, Wilde’s speak­ing on inte­ri­or dec­o­rat­ing in venues rang­ing from ele­gant con­cert halls to the bot­tom of a sil­ver mine cre­at­ed mod­ern celebri­ty cul­ture, becom­ing the first per­son ​“famous for being famous.”