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. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Barrie is recognized for popularizing the name Wendy. Curious of the other works by J. M. Barrie and receive some feedback on them. Peter pan is a wonderful fiction story about growing up and avoid being an uncaring flippant "adult-child" which I see in too many adults and peers. It is nice to know the true meaning of stories before they were corrupted by ((them)). He wrote a book on smoking which I struggle to quit hence this thread. Has anyone read it or his other stories?