You don’t have to live a haunting life of unparalleled grief and sorrow to be a great children’s author, but it helps.

This portrait of the famous Scottish playwright and author J.M. Barrie (1860–1937) was painted during rehearsals for the first performance of Barrie’s best-known work, Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who ...

The journalist and author chooses his six favourite children’s books. His new book, "The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood ...

J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, agreed. During his childhood in the 1870s, Barrie played pirate-adventure games in the garden and woods surrounding the property. Decades later, these games ...

Stop by the washhouse where the young author performed his first play at the age of seven ... See the box beds where the Barrie children would have slept crowded together.

as well as “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie. Books by authors W.E.B. Du Bois, Agatha Christie, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost will now be public domain, among thousands of others.

Who will be the last person standing in our particular set of longtime friends, the regulars, the keepers? Who gets to post ...

More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, ...