A New Pullman Profile in the Independent

May 25, 2008

Philip Pullman: His dark materials – People, News – The Independent

The death and absence of his father has informed so much of the fiction written by this highly acclaimed authorover the years, but he has never known – or wanted to know – the truth about what really happened. Until now… Cole Moreton meets Philip Pullman

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  • 1. Ericka Stork  |  May 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    I was uncomfortable with the tone of the article. It seems very intrusive into what can only be Mr. Pullman’s personal business. Not knowing the gentleman writing the article, I goggled his name to find that he has written a book, My Father Was a Hero: The True Story of a Man, a Boy and the Silence Between Them. Perhaps Mr. Moreton is looking through glasses colored by his own relationship with fathers.

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  • 2. medinger  |  May 26, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Made me uncomfortable too. Interesting to learn that about the writer of the piece. Having just lost a father myself I’m sensitive to what we know of them when they are no longer with us.

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  • 3. The Golden Compass | Inde&hellip  |  May 27, 2008 at 9:25 am

    [...] Pullman for the actions of his father as a pilot in the Mau-Mau uprising. As one commenter on the educating alice blog remarks, journalist Moreton himself had a mixed relationship with his father and that may [...]

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