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J. M. Barrie
AuthorBooks · Second hand1860-1937
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
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About J. M. Barrie
Birth
1860
Death
1937
First book
1883
Years writing
54
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
J. M. Barrie was born in 1860 in the small Scottish town of Kirriemuir.
He is world-renowned for creating the iconic character Peter Pan.
Throughout his prolific career, he wrote over sixteen hundred works.
In addition to being a novelist, he excelled as a playwright, journalist, and poet.
He used the pseudonym Ceyms to sign some of his literary creations.
