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Barrie chases author life amid maternal warning and early trials
In a biographical note for UNCLE RAY’S CORNER, Barrie’s mother urged him to a steady career before his writing dreams. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, earned a Nottingham newspaper role, then published Better Dead without success before The Little Minister and Peter Pan propelled him to fame as the boy who would not grow up.
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