Timeline of Events in JM Barrie's Life

1860: James Matthew Barrie born May 9th, 1860
1867: Began education in private school
1878: Enrolled in Edinburgh University
1882: Graduated Edinburgh University with Masters Degree
1883: Journalist at Nottingham Journal
1885: Freelance writer in London
1891: First novel published, The Little Minister
1894: Married Mary Ansell
1896: Published biography Margaret Ogilvy about his mother
1902: Novel The Little White Bird published
1904: Peter Pan play premiered
1909: Wife, Mary, had affair and left James for Gilbert Cannan.
1911: Peter and Wendy printed
1913: Became Sir James Barrie when he was granted a baronetcy
1922: Appointed to the Order of Merit
1930: Elected Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University
1930: Elected Chancellor of Edinburgh University
1937: Died June 3rd, 1937 at the age of 77
1960: Peter Llewellyn-Davies, after whom Peter Pan was named, committed suicide

Famous J.M. Barrie Quotes:

"We are all failures--at least the best of us are."

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves".

"So much of what is great...has sprung from the closeness of the family."

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which."

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."

"The horror of my boyhood was that I knew a time would come when I must give up the games [cricket and football] and how it was to be done I saw not. This agony still returns to me in dreams, when I catch myself playing marbles, and look on with cold displeasure; I felt that I must continue playing in secret."

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

"Always try to be a little kinder than necessary."

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

"Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds."

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

A Sampling of Works by JM Barrie:

Novels:

Auld Licht Idylls, 1888
Better Dead, 1888
When A Man's Single, 1888
A Window In The Thrums, 1889
The Little Minister, 1891
Margaret Ogilvy, 1896
Tommy And Grizel, 1896
Sentimental Tommy: The Story Of His Boyhood, 1896
The Little White Bird, 1902
Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens, 1906
When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought, 1908
Peter And Wendy, 1911
Uniform Edition Of The Works And Plays, 1913-1937
The Little Minister, 1915
Farewell, Miss Julie Logan: A Wintry Tale, 1931
Fifty Years Of Peter Pan, 1954
Plays And Stories, 1962

Plays:

Bandolero, The Bandit, 1877
Caught Napping, 1883
Ibsen' Ghost, 1891
Richard Savage, 1891
Professor's Love Story, 1892
Walker, London, 1892
Becky Sharp, 1893
Jane Annie, 1893 (With A. Conan Doyle)
A Platonic Friendship, 1898
The Wedding Guest, 1900
Quality Street, 1902
The Admirable Crichton, 1902
Peter Pan: Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, 1904
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, 1905
Pantaloon, 1905
Josephine, 1906
Punch, 1906
Walker, London, 1907
What Every Woman Knows, 1908
A Slice Of Life, 1910
Old Friends, 1910
The Twelve-Pound Look, 1910
Rosalind, 1912
The Dramatist Get What They Want, 1912
Half An Hour, 1913
The Adored One, 1913
The Will, 1913
Der Tag, 1914
Half Hours, 1914
Rosy Rapture, The Pride Of The Beauty Chorus, 1915
The Fatal Typist, 1915
The New Word, 1915
A Kiss For Cinderella, 1916
Shakespeare's Legacy, 1916
The Real Thing At Last, 1916
Dear Brutus, 1917
Reconstructing The Crime, 1917
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, 1917
What Every Woman Knows, 1917
Echoes Of The War, 1918
A Well-Remembered Voice, 1918
Mary Rose, 1920
The Truth About The Russian Dancers, 1920
Shall We Join The Ladies, 1921
Neil And Tintinnabulum, 1925
Barbara's Wedding, 1927
The Boy David, 1936 & 1938
The Plays, 1942 (Rev. 1947)
Mary Rose, 1947
When Wendy Grew Up, 1957
The Plays Of J.M. Barrie

Other Writings:

Tillyloss Scandal, 1883
The New Amphion, 1886
An Edinburgh Eleven, 1889
My Lady Nicotine, 1890
An Auld Licht Manse, 1893
Scotland's Lament, 1895 (poem)
A Holiday In Bed / Life In A Country Manse, 1982
Two Of Them, 1893
Irene Vanbrugh's Pantomime, 1916
Representantive Plays, 1926
The Greenwood Hat, 1937
M'connachie And J.M.B.: Speeches, 1938
Letters, 1942

Described by Friends

• Great sense of humor