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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

JM Barrie, the Scottish playwright and author of Peter Pan, was born 155 years ago today. Justine Picardie investigates whether he was an evil genius or a misunderstood ingenue ...

J.M. Barrie is famous for penning Peter Pan, one of the greatest children's stories ever told. But the author's real passion was playing cricket and he founded Britain's first ever celebrity teams ...

JM Barrie, Scottish playwright and author of Peter Pan, was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, on May 9, 1860.

It has been 80 years since J.M. Barrie died. It has been even longer since Peter Pan's creator penned The Reconstruction of the Crime with humorist E.V. Lucas — and yet in all this time ...

Peter Pan made a small appearance in a J.M. Barrie book titled The Little White Bird, before taking centre stage in his own play and novel. Peter Pans legacy remains positive, despite the dark ...

Instead, J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan—who was born on this day in 1860—decided to form an amateur cricket team, and recruited many of his famous friends to join him. Intending to poke fun ...