About Author

James Matthew Barrie

James Matthew Barrie, (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. His first successful book, Auld Licht Idylls (1888), contained sketches of life in Kirriemuir, and the stories in A Window in Thurms (1889) also explored that setting. The Little Minister (1891), a sentimental novel in the same style, was a best seller; after its dramatization in 1897, Barrie wrote mostly for the theater. His autobiographical novels When a Man’s Single (1888) and Sentimental Tommy (1896) both feature a little boy in Kirriemuir who becomes a successful writer. Most of those early works are marked by quaint Scottish dialect, whimsical humor and comic clowning, and sentimentality.