J.M. Barrie

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Sir James Matthew Barrie 1st Baronet OM 9 May 1860 19 June 1937 was a Scottish author and dramatist best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan The child of a family of smalltown weavers he was educated in Scotland He moved to London where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens included in The Little White Bird then to write Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up a fairy play about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully it became his bestknown work credited with popularising the name Wendy which was very uncommon previously Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents Before his death he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital which continues to benefit from them Description above from the Wikipedia article Sir James Matthew Barrie  licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia