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J.M. Barrie

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born
May 09, 1860 in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, The United Kingdom

died
June 19, 1937

gender
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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 s...more


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Average rating: 4.04 · 47,882 ratings · 2,309 reviews · 159 distinct works
Peter Pan
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 44,742 ratings — published 1911 — 562 editions
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1906 — 54 editions
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The Annotated Peter Pan
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The Little White Bird
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1902 — 64 editions
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions
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The Admirable Crichton
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1902 — 58 editions
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The Little Minister
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 52 editions
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Dear Brutus
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1918 — 37 editions
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Sentimental Tommy
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1896 — 54 editions
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Quotes by J.M. Barrie

“To die would 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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“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
tags: wisdom
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