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J.M. Barrie


Born
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
May 09, 1860

Died
June 19, 1937

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James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.

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

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Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (pub. 1937) 339 pp., last read May 2012
 
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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (pub 1911) 283 pp., last read Nov. 2014
 
  32 votes, 11.0%

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