author
J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
1860–1937
The Scottish novelist and playwright behind Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie transformed stories of childhood, loss, and imagination into one of the world’s most enduring fantasies. His work also included acclaimed plays such as The Admirable Crichton and Mary Rose.
34 Audiobooks
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Peter Pan : [Peter and Wendy]
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter and Wendy
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Quality Street: A Comedy
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Margaret Ogilvy
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Echoes of the War
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Better Dead
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Story of Peter Pan, Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie
by Daniel O'Connor, J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Auld Licht Idyls
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Tommy and Grizel
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Little Minister
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A kiss for Cinderella: A comedy
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The old lady shows her medals
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Mary Rose : A play in three acts
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Courage
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
What Every Woman Knows
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Pekka Poikanen (Peter Pan)
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Auld Licht Idylls
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Admirable Crichton
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Little Minister
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
"Der Tag"; or, The Tragic Man
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Dear Brutus
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A Window in Thrums
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter Pan : or, The boy who would not grow up
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Neither Dorking nor the Abbey
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
About the author
Born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, in 1860, James Matthew Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh before working as a journalist and moving to London. His early novels drew on Scottish life and storytelling, while his later career brought him success as both a novelist and playwright.
Barrie’s most famous creation, Peter Pan, first appeared in The Little White Bird in 1902 before becoming the stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, in 1904. The character was inspired in part by the Llewelyn Davies boys, whom Barrie knew in London’s Kensington Gardens; he later developed the story into the novel Peter and Wendy.
Barrie continued writing for the stage and received a baronetcy in 1913 and the Order of Merit in 1922. In 1929, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. He died in London in 1937 and was buried in Kirriemuir.