Philip Pullman is best known for being the author of the trilogy His Dark Materials, his extrodinary imagination and somewhat controversial stance of religion, which is portrayed within some of his novels.
Born is Nowrich in 1946, Pullman was educated in England, Zimbabwe and Australia before his family settled in North Wales. He then went on to study at Oxford University and gained a degree in English.
Non-series books
1972 The Haunted Storm
1976 Galatea
1982 Count Karlstein
1987 How to be Cool
1989 Spring-Heeled Jack
1990 The Broken Bridge
1992 The White Mercedes
1993 The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
1995 Clockwork, or, All Wound Up
1995 The Firework-Maker's Daughter
1998 Mossycoat
1998 The Butterfly Tattoo (re-issue of The White Mercedes)
1999 I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers
2000 Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline
2004 The Scarecrow and his Servant
The New-Cut Gang
1994 Thunderbolt's Waxwork
1995 The Gasfitter's Ball
Sally Lockhart
1985 The Ruby in the Smoke
1986 The Shadow in the North (first published as The Shadow in the Plate)
1990 The Tiger in the Well
1994 The Tin Princess
His Dark Materials
1995 Northern Lights, retitled The Golden Compass in the US
1997 The Subtle Knife
2000 The Amber Spyglass
Companion Books
2003 Lyra's Oxford
2008 Once Upon a Time in the North (not yet published)
2009 (According to Pullman himself, Although this could change) The Book of Dust (not yet published)
Plays
1990 Frankenstein
1992 Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Non-fiction
1978 Ancient Civilisations
1978 Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary