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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottishnovelist and playwright.

He is best remembered for his play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was a prolific writer in his lifetime, but only Peter Pan has become a timeless classic that continues to delight both children and adults with its theme of never leaving the innocent realm of childhood, where wondrous things exist beyond the day-to-day realities.

Critics have speculated that Peter Pan was a reflection of Barrie's own desire to not want to "grow up," both literally and figuratively, after the traumatic death of his brother in a childhood accident.

This confrontation with death and mortality at a very young age set his life on a course in search of an ideal world where growth and death had no negative impact. Another root of the story was Barrie&