J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in 1860 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the ninth of ten children of a weaver. When he was six his older brother David died in a skating accident, and Barrie tried to comfort his grieving mother; the idea of a boy who never grows up may owe something to this loss. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a journalist in Nottingham before moving to London, where he wrote novels and sketches of Scottish village life and then successful plays, such as The Admirable Crichton. In Kensington Gardens he befriended the Llewelyn Davies boys and made up stories for them about a boy named Peter Pan. The play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up opened in London in 1904, and he turned it into the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. After the deaths of the boys' parents, Barrie became their guardian. He was made a baronet in 1913 and gave the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1929. He died in London in 1937.

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Faith: Born into a conservative Calvinist family in Scotland; his adult beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia