In an age primed for tabloid revelations and psychosexual analysis of the famous, living or dead, Scottish writer J.M. Barrie is a delectably inviting subject. Born the ninth of 10 children in 1860 to ...
J.M. Barrie opens his 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy, with “All children, except one, grow up.” ...
Scottish author J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” is now more than 100 years old. Over the decades, it has entered popular culture on a level that few literary works ever do, ...
THE REAL PETER PAN: J.M. BARRIE AND THE BOY WHO INSPIRED HIM By Piers Dudgeon Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 400 pages, illustrated J.M. Barrie was already a successful playwright when ...
Manuscripts, photographs, documents and artifacts from the Beinecke’s collections will serve to exemplify Barrie’s creative life and the breadth of his work. A series of films based on Barrie’s plays ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Pan has had many incarnations over the years, but the origins of the tale, as well as the fates of its author, J.M. Barrie, ...
Almost a hundred years ago, at half past eight on the evening of December 27, 1904, the curtain went up at the Duke of York’s Theatre, in London, to reveal, among other things, a man dressed as a dog.