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J.M. Barrie


Born
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
May 09, 1860

Died
June 19, 1937

Genre
Children's, Fiction, Drama

Influences
Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, R.M. Ballantyne, Oscar Wilde, Ar ...more


James Matthew Barrie 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.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turn ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 460,333 ratings · 21,757 reviews · 2,391 distinct works • Similar authors
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Peter Pan and Other Plays
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Le avventure di Peter Pan
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The Admirable Crichton
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
tags: adventure, love
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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