J.M. Barrie wrote one of the most famous and enduring works of children’s literature - Peter Pan. Despite being written over a hundred years ago, this fairy tale continues to delight adults and children everywhere in books, in movies and on stage.    And yet Barrie himself - a strange, retiring man who longed to re-live his boyhood again - is little known. A celebrity writer in his own lifetime who was shy and out of time.  He created a huge body of work both before and after Peter Pan which is mostly unread today. So was the man behind one of literature’s most magical stories? Read my short biography to find out more on the man behind Peter Pan....

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