J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in 1860 in a weavers' village in north-eastern Scotland, the ninth of ten children. His elder brother died at thirteen in a skating accident and their mother never recovered: he would spend his childhood imitating the dead boy to console her. He moved to London, wrote novels and then plays, achieved immense success and became attached to a family of five boys, of whom he became the guardian. He died in 1937.

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• TheatrePeter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow UpJ. M. Barrie · 1904Literature