Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, in 1946 and spent parts of his childhood in Zimbabwe and Australia before settling in Oxford, the city that would become the imaginative center of his greatest work. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford, and spent decades as a schoolteacher, developing his storytelling gifts through years of standing before classrooms and learning how to hold an audience. He published several novels before His Dark Materials, but it was the trilogy's first volume, Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the United States), that announced him as a writer of the first rank. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by His Dark Materials.