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About Philip Pullman
English writer, best known for His Dark Materials
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer, best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. He is a contemporary author whose work has reached a wide readership, with 119 quotes on this site. His Dark Materials began with Northern Lights in 1995, which won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass, won the Whitbread Award. He later began the companion trilogy The Book of Dust in 2017, and its final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
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Books by Philip Pullman
Northern Lights
1999
The Subtle Knife
2002
The Amber Spyglass
2001
His Dark Materials
2007
The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
1985