Philip Pullman (1946-) is an author. Pullman is best known for the His Dark Materials fantasy series.
Childhood[]
Philip Pullman was born on October 19, 1946 in Norwich, England, to Audrey Pullman and Alfred Pullman, a British soldier and a Royal Air Force pilot. During his childhood, his family moved around a lot, and for a while lived in what is now Zimbabwe.
To pass the time during the long journeys that his father's job required, Pullman would occupy his younger brother with his own fantasy tales. After his father was killed in a plane crash, Pullman was sent back to England to live with his grandparents.
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Adulthood[]
After Philip Pullman finished studying English at the University of Oxford, he became a teacher there.
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Career[]
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Writing style[]
Pullman is most notable for his atheistic worldview (with far-right journalist Peter Hitchens claiming that Pullman "killed God" and was a threat to British society). The His Dark Materials series can be seen as a mirror of Christianity.
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Written Works[]
Older Readers[]
- His Dark Materials trilogy
- The Book of Dust trilogy
- La Belle Sauvage
- The Secret Commonwealth
- Sally Lockhart quartet
- Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Companion Books[]
- Lyra's Oxford
- Once Upon a Time in the North
- Serpentine
Younger Readers[]
- I Was a Rat!
- Count Karlstein
- Two Crafty Criminals!
- Spring-Heeled Jack
- The Scarecrow and His Servant
Other[]
- The White Mercedes
- The Broken Bridge
- Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling