Philip Pullman

Person · Open Library

Born

19 October 1946

Works

104

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1946-10-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7,013

Total plays

494,359

Philip Pullman is a contemporary writer living in Oxford, England. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, first published between 1995 and 2000. The books – Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass - have been shortlisted for and won Pullman numerous awards, most famously the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2001. The Amber Spyglass was the first Children’s Book of the Year to win the overall award. <a href="https://w

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

   · 2003 · cited 65,144x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

   · 2020 · cited 13,886x

4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 13,881x

5. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,273x

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Quotes

• “I'm trying to write a book about what it means to be human, to grow up, to suffer and learn. My quarrel with much (not all) fantasy is it has this marvellous toolbox and does nothing with it except construct shoot-em-up games. Why shouldn't a work of fantasy be as truthful and profound about becoming an adult human being as the work of George Eliot or Jane Austen? Well, there are a few fantasies that are. One of them is Paradise Lost.”
• “On an unseasonably, uncomfortably, unnaturally warm day in mid-October I sit here trying not to think about global warming. But it's difficult. Is this fear going to pass away like the other fears I remember — nuclear war, overpopulation leading to mass starvation, the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain? Well, those problems haven't gone away exactly. The new one just seems bigger than all the rest.”
• “His (C. S. Lewis's) work is not frivolous in the way that Tolkien is frivolous, though it seems odd to call a novel of great intricacy and enormous popularity frivolous. I just don’t like the conclusions Lewis comes to, after all that analysis, the way he shuts children out from heaven, or whatever it is, on the grounds that the one girl is interested in boys. She’s a teenager! Ah, it’s terrible: Sex — can’t have that. And yet I respect Lewis more than I do Tolkien.”
• “Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.”
• “Her dæmon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall.”
• “How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what's going to happen? I don't intend to do that, I promise you.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.philip-pullman.com

Image

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Number of children

2

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