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J.M. Barrie

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), 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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Actor

Masks and Faces

1917

Writing

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

2024

Novel

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

2024

Characters

The Island Between Tides

2024

Author

Peter Pan & Wendy

2023

Novel

Come Away

2020

Characters

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

2017

Writer

Peter & Wendy

2015

Novel

Pan

2015

Characters

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast

2014

Characters

Peter Pan Live!

2014

Book

Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy

2014

Characters

Secret of the Wings

2012

Characters

Pixie Hollow Games

2011

Characters

Tinker Bell

2008

Characters

Peter Pan

2003

Theatre Play

Return to Never Land

2002

Characters

Shrek

2001

Characters

Peter Pan

2000

Writer

Hook

1991

Author

Peter Pan

1988

Novel

Peter Pan

1987

Novel

Mary Rose

1987

Writer

Dear Brutus

1981

Writer

Peter Pan

1976

Theatre Play

The Little Minister

1975

Novel

The Admirable Crichton

1968

Theatre Play

Johannisnacht

1966

Novel

Peter Pan

1962

Original Story

Peter Pan

1960

Theatre Play

The Admirable Crichton

1957

Theatre Play

Peter Pan

1956

Theatre Play

Peter Pan

1955

Theatre Play

Forever Female

1953

Theatre Play

Peter Pan

1953

Theatre Play

Darling, How Could You!

1951

Theatre Play

Quality Street

1937

Novel

The Little Minister

1934

Novel

The Little Minister

1934

Theatre Play

What Every Woman Knows

1934

Theatre Play

We're Not Dressing

1934

Theatre Play

Charlemagne

1933

Story

The doctor's secret

1930

Theatre Play

The Doctor's Secret

1930

Writer

The doctor's secret

1930

Writer

Seven Days Leave

1930

Theatre Play

The Doctor's Secret

1929

Writer

A Kiss for Cinderella

1925

Theatre Play

Peter Pan

1924

Novel

The Little Minister

1922

Theatre Play

The Little Minister

1921

Theatre Play

What Every Woman Knows

1921

Theatre Play

Sentimental Tommy

1921

Story

The Twelve Pound Look

1920

Story

Male and Female

1919

Theatre Play

The Real Thing at Last

1916

Story

Rosy Rapture

1915

Writer

The Little Minister

1915

Theatre Play

The Little Minister

1915

Screenplay

The Little Minister

1913

Novel

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble

Characters