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J.M. Barrie

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Born: May 08 1860

Died: 1818 06 19371937

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls and A Window in Thrums , contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre.

In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing 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 "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.

Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy

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Peter Pan [Audible Drama]

Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

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Peter Pan and Other Plays

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Peter Pan y Wendy

Peter Pan y Wendy

Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts

Peter Pan: An Audible Original Drama

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The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens

Peter Pan: edição comentada (Clássicos Zahar)

My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke

The Admirable Crichton

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