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• J.M. Barrie was a playwright and novelist whose best known play was Peter Pan. When Barrie was six, his mother's favorite child David died in a skating accident on the eve of his fourteenth birthday. After his brother's death, Barrie did everything in his power to replace his brother and gain his mother's attention. Many of Barrie's stories were influenced by his mother and his own memories of Kirriemuir life. Barrie's lost childhood was re-awakened through the stories he wrote for the Llewelyn Davies' boys and the games he played with them. This acquaintance became the inspiration for Peter Pan, the imaginative story of a boy who never grew up and stays young and happy forever. The movie Finding Neverland is openly acknowledged as inspired by true and biographical events in the life of Barrie.

• Fast Facts

  1. Name: James Matthew Barrie
  2. Born: May 9, 1860
  3. Died: 1937
  4. Hometown: Kirriemuir, Scotland
  5. 9th child of 10
  6. Worked as journalist for the Nottingham Journal
  7. He was short and slight
  8. Married - had no children and later divorced
  9. Guardian of the Llewelyn Davies Boys
  10. Friends with Conan Doyle

• Notable Works

  • 1902. The Little White Bird
  • 1904: Peter Pan

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  Peter Pan | Finding Neverland | Robinson Crusoe | Robert Louis Stevenson | H. G. Wells | George Bernard Shaw | Johnny Depp | Kate Winslet | Hook Movie

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