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·普爾曼（Philip Pullman， 1946－），20世紀以來最重要的英國童書作傢之一。畢業於牛津大學，曾任西敏學院兼任講師，教授維多利亞時期文學與民間故事，目前與傢人住在英國，專事寫作。除瞭青少年小說外，也撰寫劇本與圖畫書。

他擅長采集童話、傳說與類型故事元素，揉閤當代議題與驚人的幽默感。以英國維多利亞時代為背景的「英倫懸疑四部麯」（《紅寶石迷霧》、《北方之星》、《井底之虎》、《锡公主》），便編織瞭社會寫實、驚悚冒險、超自然元素、蒸汽幻想等多元類型風格，人物性格鮮明，情節麯摺緊湊，更跳脫成人與兒童的分界，廣受好評，也奠定他在長篇小說寫作上的地位。同時此套小說也成為之後國際級暢銷經典「黑暗元素三部麯」的寫作基調。他的珠玉小品故事，如《發條鍾》、《我是老鼠！》與《卡斯坦伯爵》等，也精湛地發揮瞭揉閤編織的功力，故事雖短，文本層次豐富而有餘韻，是短篇故事的翹楚之作。

All three books of Philip Pullman's award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass)