Philip Pullman

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In this Jan. 11, 2017 photo provide by Penguin Random House, author Philip Pullman poses for a photograph outside of Worcester College, in Oxford, England. The irrepressible young heroine of Pullman's fantasy saga "His Dark Materials" returns in a new novel being published in Britain and the U.S. on Oct. 19, the first part of a trilogy called "The Book of Dust." (Michael Leckie/Penguin Random House via AP)