Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet,
OM (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of
Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of 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 (included in
The Little White Bird), then to write
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of
Neverland.