The author, James Matthew Barrie, lived in London with his wife, Mary, near Kensington Gardens. He would take frequent walks there with his St. Bernard dog, Porthos. One day he came across three little boys and their nanny. Their names were George, Jack, and Peter Llewelyn Davies. Over the years he became extremely close with these boys and their family, including the two other brothers who were born later. Through this tight-knit, almost invasive friendship Barrie developed with them, he came to create the character he would become most famous for: Peter Pan. All the games he would play with the Davies boys of pirates, indians, and magical lands would soon be collected into the story we now know. The thrilling adventures of this wonderful, fearless boy were very exciting to me as a child. Peter Pan was food for my imagination I inhaled.
