Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys.Born in Kirriemuir, Angus, the second youngest of ten children, Barrie was educated at the Glasgow Academy, Forfar Academy and Dumfries Academy, and the University of Edinburgh. He became a journalist in Nottingham, then London, and turned to writing novels and subsequently plays. He is also credited for the invention...

I had my delicious dream that night. I dreamt that I too was twenty-six- which was a long time ago; and that I took train to a place called my home- whose whereabouts I see not in my waking hours- and when I alighted at the station a dear lost love was waiting for me- and we went away together.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

I had my delicious dream that night. I dreamt that I too was twenty-six- which was a long time ago; and that I took train to a place called my home- whose whereabouts I see not in my waking hours- and when I alighted at the station a dear lost love was waiting for me- and we went away together.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)