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J. M. Barrie was born in 1860 in Scotland, just ten years before the death of another literary luminary, Charles Dickens. A playwright and a novelist, Barrie is best known today as the creator of Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and the elusive Neverland.
Perhaps no story has undergone such a transformation as the tale of Peter Pan. As the play was first formulating under Barrie’s pen—long before it was a novel—you might have said Peter himself was the villain: a child, to be sure, but also wily, cunning, and as manipulative as they come. In fact, Captain Hook wasn’t even in the story! It was over time that the famous pirate found himself dueling the provocative Peter, and while Jas. Hook became the villain we know and love today, Peter never lost his impish, conniving nature with its eternal disdain for grownups.
Possibly because of tragedy in his own life, Barrie’s works are imbued with a longing romanticization of childhood, as if his pen could take him places his future would never go again. He died in 1937, and though one might not call Barrie’s life easy or even particularly happy, his works possess a certain spark of carefree, childish wonder that the world will cherish for centuries to come.