J.M. Barrie

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J.M. Barrie


Born
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
May 09, 1860

Died
June 19, 1937

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre.

In London he met the Llewelyn Davies bo
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Quotes by J.M. Barrie  (?)
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages
 
  21 votes, 15.2%

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  19 votes, 13.8%

 
  14 votes, 10.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.4%

 
  11 votes, 8.0%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.2%

 
  9 votes, 6.5%

 
  8 votes, 5.8%

 
  7 votes, 5.1%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.1%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.6%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.4%

 
  2 votes, 1.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

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