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Sir James Matthew Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, at Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, Scotland. He was the ninth child and youngest of three sons of David Barrie, a weaver of Kirriemuir, and his wife, Margaret Ogilvy. He attended Glasgow Academy, Dumfries Academy, and Edinburgh University, where he graduated with a master's degree in 1882. In 1894 he married Mary Ansell, a young actress in London, a marriage which was to end in divorce in 1910.
Even as a young boy, Barrie was determined to be a writer, and upon graduation, he took a job as a writer and sub-editor on the Nottingham...
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