Philip Pullman (1946, E) was born in Norwich but most of his formative years were spent in Llanbedr, Ardudwy, North Wales. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the “50 greatest British writers since 1945”. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. The first book of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association and was adapted as a film under the book’s US title, The Golden Compass. He has a strong commitment to traditional British civil liberties and is noted for his criticism of growing state authority and government encroachment into everyday life. In October 2011, Pullman backed a campaign to stop 600 library closures in England calling it a “war against stupidity”.
Website – www.philip-pullman.com
Books
- 1972 The Haunted Storm
- 1976 Galatea
- 1978 Ancient Civilizations
- 1978 Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary
- 1982 Count Karlstein
- 1985 The Ruby in the Smoke
- 1986 The Shadow in the North (first published as The Shadow in the Plate)
- 1987 How to Be Cool
- 1987 The Gas-Fitters’ Ball
- 1989 Spring-Heeled Jack
- 1990 The Broken Bridge
- 1990 The Tiger in the Well
- 1990 Frankenstein
- 1992 The White Mercedes
- 1992 Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
- 1993 The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
- 1994 The Tin Princess
- 1994 Thunderbolt’s Waxwork
- 1995 The Gas-Fitters’ Ball
- 1995 Northern Lights; US title, The Golden Compass
- 1995 Clockwork, or, All Wound Up
- 1995 The Firework-Maker’s Daughter
- 1997 The Subtle Knife
- 1998 Mossycoat
- 1998 The Butterfly Tattoo (re-issue of The White Mercedes)
- 1999 I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers
- 2000 The Amber Spyglass
- 2000 Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline
- 2003 Lyra’s Oxford
- 2004 The Scarecrow and his Servant
- 2008 Once Upon a Time in the North
- 2010 The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (part of the Canongate Myth series)
- 2012 Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm
- 2014 The Collectors (audiobook & Kindle)
- 2017 La Belle Sauvage
- 2017 Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
- 2019 The Secret Commonwealth