J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys is the story of James Barrie and how he created Peter Pan. Birkin presents a prologue that discusses the death of one of the lost Boys - Peter Llewelyn Davies. Davies, a publisher of a London publishing house, stepped in front of a train and was killed at age 63. Barrie relates Peter Pan to all five of the Davies' boys, who were also the inspiration for the Lost Boys, the troupe of boys that befriended Peter Pan. Like Peter,...