About Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before his family settled in North Wales. He received his secondary education at Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, and was the first pupil from his school to win a place at Oxford University, where he studied English literature. At Oxford he focused on the work of the seventeenth-century poet and essayist John Milton. The title of Pullman’s trilogy,His Dark Materials, comes from a phrase in Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, which retells the biblical story of Adam and Eve and their fall into sin.
His Books
Pullman's first children’s book was Count Karlstein (1982, republished in 2002). That was followed by The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), the first in a quartet of books featuring the young Victorian adventurer, Sally Lockhart.
He has also written a number of shorter stories including The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, I Was a Rat!, and Clockwork, or All Wound Up.
The most well-known of is work, however, is the trilogy His Dark Materials, beginning with Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the USA) in 1995, continuing with The Subtle Knife in 1997, and concluding with The Amber Spyglass in 2000. These books have been honoured by several prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Award, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award – the first time in the history of that prize that it was given to a children’s book.
He has also written a number of shorter stories including The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, I Was a Rat!, and Clockwork, or All Wound Up.
The most well-known of is work, however, is the trilogy His Dark Materials, beginning with Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the USA) in 1995, continuing with The Subtle Knife in 1997, and concluding with The Amber Spyglass in 2000. These books have been honoured by several prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Book Award, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award – the first time in the history of that prize that it was given to a children’s book.
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