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J. M. Barrie

1860 - 1937

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several 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 (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. M. Barrie has received more than 4,701,278 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). J. M. Barrie is the 623rd most popular writer (down from 506th in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 395th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Writer.

J. M. Barrie is most famous for writing Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up.

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  • 4.7M

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  • 70.28

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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, J. M. Barrie ranks 623 out of 7,302. Before him are Bert Hellinger, Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, and Alfred Döblin. After him are Poliziano, Mihai Eminescu, Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, and Ludwig Tieck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, J. M. Barrie ranks 19. Before him are Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, James Ensor, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia. After him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ernest Thompson Seton, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Hugo Wolf, John J. Pershing, and Louis Wain. Among people deceased in 1937, J. M. Barrie ranks 18. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Gerda Taro. After him are Austen Chamberlain, J. Bruce Ismay, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Gaston Doumergue, Jean Harlow, and Rudolf Otto.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. M. Barrie ranks 447 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Dance (1946), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), William Pitt the Younger (1759), Joan Clarke (1917), Robert Walpole (1676), and David Niven (1910). After him are John Rhys-Davies (1944), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), Tim Curry (1946), Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411), Samuel Johnson (1709), and Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, J. M. Barrie ranks 51. Before him are George Eliot (1819), A. A. Milne (1882), Enid Blyton (1897), Samuel Butler (1835), D. H. Lawrence (1885), and John Donne (1572). After him are Samuel Johnson (1709), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), and Ernest Thompson Seton (1860).

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