Barrie, James Matthew, Sir (J. M. Barrie)

Scottish dramatist and novelist

1860 - Born on the 9th of May in Kirriemuir, Angus Scotland.

Received his formal education at the Glasgow Academy and the University of Edinburgh.

Became a journalist in Nottingham, then London, and turned to writing novels and subsequently plays.

1891 - Wrote Ibsen's Ghost, a parody of Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts.

1901-1908 - Wrote for the theatre including Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows (1908), and The Admirable Crichton (1902).

1909-1911 - Involved in attempts to challenge the censorship of the Lord Chamberlain over play production in London.

1924 - He specified that the copyright of the play should go to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

1937 - Sir James Matthew Barrie died 19th of June.

• "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
• "I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."