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He is best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus and was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University. He became a journalist at Nottingham, then London, and became a novelist. The first two novels were set in Kirriemuir, disguised as "Thrums" (his father was a weaver). He then wrote for the theatre, including Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows and The Admirable Crichton. But he is remembered mainly for Peter Pan, which he based on his friends, the Llewellyn-Davies boys.

He died in 1937 and was interred at Kirriemuir, next to his parents, sister and brother David.

A movie about his relationship with the Llewellyn-Davies family, Finding NeverlandFinding Neverland is a 2004 film, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. It is a semi-fictional account of the experiences of Peter Pan author J. Barrie that led him to write the children's classic. In the movie, he befriends a young widow and more import, was released in October 2004, starring Johnny DeppJohn Christopher Depp II widely known as Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky), is an American film actor. He appeared in the long-running police drama 21 Jump Street and in a number of movies where he distinguished himself as a quirky le as Barrie.

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• Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub e-texts of works by James Matthew Barrie
• eLook Literature: Works by J. M. Barrie - Writings by J. M. Barrie formatted in HTML and broken down by chapters.
• Was the author of Peter Pan a pedophile? (from The Straight Dope)