Philip Pullman was born in 1946 in Norwich, England and moved during in childhood in various countries
including Australia and Zimbabwe before coming back in North Wales. Despite a modest background, he later studied at Exeter College, Oxford,
and became a teacher in this town where he still lives with his wife Jude.
Pullman was very early interested in tales and stories his grand-father, an anglican clergyman, used to tell
him. He very soon wanted to become a writer, even if he find this world inadequate, considering he just writes stories.
His characters describe a positive vision of humankind. Most of his books are primarly for youth, but he also
wrote for adults and made various stageplay adaptations for his pupils.
Philip Pullman also wrote the
Sally Lockhart
Mysteries out of which the first two books were adapted by the BBC in 2006 and 2007.
He was knighted for services to litterature within the New Year Promotion of 2019.
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