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Philip Pullman (b. October 19, 1946) is a British author best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy of young adult novels. Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in Zimbabwe, Australia and England, ultimately settling with his family in Wales. After graduating Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, he attended Exeter College and Oxford.

Pullman started out at twenty-five as a teacher at Oxford Middle Schools and later Westminster College. He published his first children's book Count Karlstein in 1986 and has since authored almost twenty novels mainly for children. His second book, The Ruby in the Smoke featured a young Victorian adventurer, Sally Lockhart. Pullman is also the author of short stories such as The Firework-Maker's Daughter, I Was a Rat!, and Clockwork, or All Wound Up.

Pullman's best known series, His Dark Materials has won several awards including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Award, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Pullman was also awarded with the Farjeon Award for children's literature in 2002.

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