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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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bodies were discovered last month when two women were clearing out the abandoned basement of an apartment building. The corpses were wrapped in sheets and hidden in two doctor's bags among ...

Life is not a musical. The show spins a bleak, dark story of J.M. Barrie, a London playwright who penned PETER PAN, into a sugar-coated confection. Barrie channeled his own tragic past and a ...

This week: a critical look at V.S. Naipaul’s all-too revealing book on Africa, J.M. Barrie’s cricket team of literary all-stars, and the Hoxne treasure trove explained. Got a tip? Send it to ...

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 ...