Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman, (born October 19, 1946), English writer, is the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers.

The last volume of that trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, was awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award.

Like the Harry Potter books, the His Dark Materials books have been criticized by some Christian groups. Perhaps with more reason; Pullman, unlike J K Rowling, has an openly anti-Christian agenda and in the books of the His Dark Materials trilogy "the Church" is consistently on the side of wrong.

Bibliography

• I was a rat (2000)
• The Broken Bridge (1994)
• Clockwork or All Wound Up, illustrated by Leonid Gore (1999)
• Count Karlstein (1998)
• Detective Stories, ilustrated by Nick Hardcastle (1998)
• Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline, illustrated by Ian Beck (2001)
• The Firework-maker's daughter, illustrated by Susan Saelig Gallagher (2001)
• "Spring-Heeled Jack: A Story of Bravery and Evil'', illustrated by David Mostyn (2002)
• Sally Lockhart series: modern "penny dreadfuls"
  • The Ruby in the Smoke (1985)
  • The Shadow in the North (first published as The Shadow in the Plate) (1986)
  • The Tiger in the Well (1991)
  • The Tin Princess (1994)
• 'His Dark Materials' trilogy:
  • Northern Lights, retitled The Golden Compass in the US (1996)
  • The Subtle Knife (1999)
  • The Amber Spyglass (2000)
• Lyra's Oxford (2003)

External Links

News story: Pullman criticizes modern fiction: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,773090,00.html