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Peter also killed himself, beneath the wheels of a train. No wonder D.H. Lawrence was moved to say: 'J.M. Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves.' Only Nicholas, the youngest, seemed to have ...

The author was J. M. Barrie: Jimmy to some of his friends, and, in his later pomp, Sir James. He was short and slight, with bags under his eyes and a pale, protuberant brow, like a clever ...

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 ...

LONDON, July 3.-J. M. Barrie's modesty and shrinking from personal publicity are such well-known traits of his character that it will hardly surprise his friends to learn that he has refused a title.

Rubin is a critic and author of "Sarah Gertrude Millin: A South African Life." J.M. Barrie wrote many hit plays, including such classics as “The Admirable Crichton” and “Dear Brutus,” but ...

“All children, except one, grow up.” When J.M. Barrie wrote that line about Peter Pan in 1911, it was generally taken as the expression of a beautiful and melancholy fantasy: Children are so ...

"Finding Neverland" ends so beautifully, so poignantly and so aptly that there's a big temptation to forget that most of what precedes the ending is tiresome drivel, that Johnny Depp's performance ...

A Reddit fan theory highlights all the clues viewers may have overlooked in Peter Pan that point to the true, surprising ...