Philip Pullman
The English author of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
Philip Pullman is the English author behind the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. He was born in Norwich on 19 October 1946, and the 2019 New Year Honours made him a knight for his writing.
Northern Lights, the 1995 book that opens the trilogy, took the Carnegie Medal and was afterwards voted the Carnegie of Carnegies.
Quick Facts
- Honorific prefix
- Sir
- Born
- 19 October 1946
- Birthplace
- Norwich, England
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Education
- English
- Alma mater
- Exeter College, Oxford
- Spouse
- Judith Speller (1970)
Facts from the source article.
Background
The closing book, The Amber Spyglass, earned the Whitbread Award in 2000. A companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, followed from 2017 and was completed when The Rose Field came out in October 2025.
His grandfather, a Church of England rector, gave him his love of storytelling. His father, an RAF pilot, died in a plane crash in Kenya in 1954, when Pullman was seven, and the family later moved to North Wales.
The Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo called him the Tolkien of our day.
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