Editing Philip Pullman (section)

==Writing==
His [[debut novel]], ''[[The Haunted Storm]]'' (1972) was joint-winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award, but he refuses to discuss it.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-01-12 |last=Royle| first=Nicholas| author-link=Nicholas Royle| title=The allure of the first novel |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/12/allure-of-the-first-novel |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref>  He followed it with ''Galatea'', (1978) an adult fantasy. ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' wrote "Pullman is not without ideas or talent; both shine often enough through this grandiose muddle to make one wonder what he'll do next."<ref>{{cite news| title=Galatea| date=March 1, 1979|work=[[Kirkus Reviews]]| url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/philip-pullman-2/galatea/}}</ref> His school plays inspired his first children's book, ''[[Count Karlstein]]'' (1982). He stopped teaching shortly after the publication of ''[[The Ruby in the Smoke]]'' (1985), a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] mystery and the first book in the [[Sally Lockhart]] quartet, followed by ''[[The Shadow in the North]]'' (1986), ''[[The Tiger in the Well]]'' (1990) and ''[[The Tin Princess]]'' (1994). He collaborated with [[David Mostyn (cartoonist)|David Mostyn]] on ''Spring-Heeled Jack'' (1989), a combination of [[graphic novel]] and text based on a [[penny dreadful]] [[Spring Heeled Jack| character]]. ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' wrote: "this waggish, innovative story of a courageous trio is sure to engage even the most reluctant reader."<ref>{{cite news| title=Spring-Heeled Jack|date=1989|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-440-41881-8| work=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> He wrote the realist novel ''[[The Broken Bridge]]'' (1990), "a love letter to that landscape of North Wales."<ref name=Jones/>

Between 1988 and 1996, Pullman taught part-time at [[Westminster College, Oxford]], continuing to write children's stories. He began ''His Dark Materials'' in about 1993. The first book, ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)| Northern Lights]]'', was published in 1995 (as ''The Golden Compass'' in the U.S. in 1996). While working on the trilogy, he wrote ''[[The Firework-Maker's Daughter]]'' (1995), ''[[Clockwork (novel)|Clockwork, or All Wound Up]]'' (1996) and ''[[I Was a Rat! or, The Scarlet Slippers]]'' (1999), which he calls [[fairy tales]]. ''The Firework-Maker's Daughter'' won the Gold [[Nestlé Smarties Book Prize]]. The trilogy continued with ''[[The Subtle Knife]]'' (1997) and ''[[The Amber Spyglass]]'' (2000).

Pullman has been writing full-time since 1996. He continues to deliver talks and writes occasionally for ''[[The Guardian]]'', including writing and lecturing about education, in which he is often critical of unimaginative education policies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uce.ac.uk/web2/releases04/3476.html |title=Acclaimed Author Philip Pullman to Visit UCE Birmingham |access-date=11 May 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924164828/http://www.uce.ac.uk/web2/releases04/3476.html |archive-date=24 September 2006}}. uce.ac.uk. 6 May 2004</ref><ref name="Moonshine">{{cite news| last=Pullman| first=Philip|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/jan/22/schools.wordsandlanguage |title=Common sense has much to learn from moonshine |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=23 December 2014}}</ref> He was awarded a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the New Year's Honours list in 2004. That year, he was elected President of the Blake Society<ref>[http://www.blakesociety.org/about/governance/report-to-st-james%E2%80%99s-2004/ Report to St James’s 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132559/http://www.blakesociety.org/about/governance/report-to-st-james%E2%80%99s-2004/ |date=7 March 2012}}. blakesociety.org</ref> and guest-edited ''[[The Mays Literary Anthology]]'', a collection of new writing from students at the Universities of Oxford and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. He returned to fairy tales with ''[[The Scarecrow and His Servant]]'' (2004), which won the Silver Smarties Prize. 

In 2008, he started working on ''[[The Book of Dust]]'', a companion trilogy to ''His Dark Materials'', and "The Adventures of John Blake", a story for the British children's comic ''[[The DFC]]'', with artist John Aggs.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080718203926/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3908515.ece Philip Pullman writes comic strip], ''[[The Times]]'', 11 May 2008</ref>

In 2012, during a break from writing ''The Book of Dust'', Pullman was asked by [[Penguin Classics]] to curate 50 of [[Grimms' Fairy Tales|Grimms' classic fairytales]], from their compendium of over 200 stories. "They are not all of the same quality", said Pullman. "Some are easily much better than others. And some are obvious classics. You can't do a selected Grimms' without [[Rumpelstiltskin]], [[Cinderella]] and so on."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19624841|title=Philip Pullman turns to Grimm task| work=[[BBC News]]|date=24 September 2012}}</ref> In 2017, a collection of his lectures and essays were published as ''Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling''.<ref>{{cite news| title=Philip Pullman's Daemon Voices Casts an Entrancing Spell| last=Miller| first=Laura| author-link=Laura Miller (writer)| date=October 22, 2018| work=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/books/review/philip-pullman-deamon-voices.html}}</ref>