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About Arthur ConanArthur Conan Sir DoyleJ. M. BarrieSir Doyle

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. Born in Kirriemuir Barrie was raised in a strict Calvinist family. At the age of six he lost his brother David to an ice-skating accident a tragedy which left his family devastated and led to a strengthening in Barries relationship with his mother. At school he developed a passion for reading and acting forming a drama club with his friends in Glasgow. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh he found work as a journalist for the Nottingham Journal while writing the stories that would become his first novels. The Little White Bird (1902) a blend of fairytale fiction and social commentary was his first novel to feature the beloved character Peter Pan who would take the lead in his 1904 play Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up later adapted for a 1911 novel and immortalized in the 1953 Disney animated film. A friend of Robert Louis Stevenson George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells Barrie is known for his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family whose young boys were the inspiration for his stories of Peter Pans adventures with Wendy Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys on the island of Neverland.