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J. M. Barrie

1860 - 1937

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) 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. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. M. Barrie is the 531st most popular writer (up from 622nd in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 447th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Writer.

J. M. Barrie is most famous for writing Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up.

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Among writers, J. M. Barrie ranks 531 out of 7,302. Before him are G. K. Chesterton, Jacinto Benavente, Ludvig Holberg, Georg Trakl, Tennessee Williams, and Jules Michelet. After him are Vasily Grossman, Richard Bach, Pierre de Ronsard, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Martial, and Vasubandhu.

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Among people born in 1860, J. M. Barrie ranks 15. Before him are Isaac Albéniz, William Jennings Bryan, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Kanō Jigorō, Herman Hollerith, and James Ensor. After him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Anders Zorn, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Hugo Wolf, and Jane Addams. Among people deceased in 1937, J. M. Barrie ranks 18. Before him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After him are Gerda Taro, Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, Karol Szymanowski, and Jean Harlow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. M. Barrie ranks 474 out of 8,785. Before him are G. K. Chesterton (1874), Jasper Tudor (1431), Tom Baker (1934), Richard Trevithick (1771), Pelagius (360), and Tilda Swinton (1960). After him are David Beckham (1975), Gertrude Bell (1868), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Peter Sellers (1925), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), and Captain Tom (1920).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, J. M. Barrie ranks 49. Before him are Samuel Butler (1835), Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Thomas Paine (1737), and G. K. Chesterton (1874). After him are Enid Blyton (1897), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), Beatrix Potter (1866), and Frederick Forsyth (1938).

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