Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist, journalist and playwright. The author moved in literary high society and was acquainted with Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, A.A. Milne and many others. Although he found success with articles and novels of Scottish life and wrote a lengthy chain of critically and financially successful plays, the world will always remember him as the creator of Peter Pan.

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie introduces the iconic magical child of the title, a wild and mischievous eternal boy, who tumbles into the lives of young Wendy Darling and her two brothers. They are willingly spirited off by Peter, taken to Neverland, a timeless fantasy world of wonder, adventure, and very real danger.