Philip Pullman has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award for The Amber Spyglass; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Philip Pullman is the author of many books for young readers, including two volumes related to the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. He lives in Oxford, England.

菲利普·普尔曼（Philip Pullman， 1946－），20世纪以来最重要的英国童书作家之一。毕业于牛津大学，曾任西敏学院兼任讲师，教授维多利亚时期文学与民间故事，目前与家人住在英国，专事写作。除了青少年小说外，也撰写剧本与图画书。

他擅长采集童话、传说与类型故事元素，揉合当代议题与惊人的幽默感。以英国维多利亚时代为背景的「英伦悬疑四部曲」（《红宝石迷雾》、《北方之星》、《井底之虎》、《锡公主》），便编织了社会写实、惊悚冒险、超自然元素、蒸汽幻想等多元类型风格，人物性格鲜明，情节曲折紧凑，更跳脱成人与儿童的分界，广受好评，也奠定他在长篇小说写作上的地位。同时此套小说也成为之后国际级畅销经典「黑暗元素三部曲」的写作基调。他的珠玉小品故事，如《发条钟》、《我是老鼠！》与《卡斯坦伯爵》等，也精湛地发挥了揉合编织的功力，故事虽短，文本层次丰富而有余韵，是短篇故事的翘楚之作。