Philippa Pullar

Philipa Pullar (12 February 1935, in London - 7 September 1997 in London) was a British author and jet set personality best remembered for her exhaustively-researched 1975 biography of Irish-American author Frank Harris. The biography involved great amounts of traveling and research, not least because Harris had intricately woven fact and fiction in his famous five-volume autobiography, "My Life and Loves".

In later years Pullar became known as a devotee of New Age thought, and prior to her death from cancer advocated various methods of natural and alternative healing.

After her death she appeared as a major character in Michael Holroyd's memoir "Mosaic", which contained a chapter about his relationship with the "numinous" Pullar.

Books by Philipa Pullar

Consuming Passions: History of English Food and Appetite - 1972

Frank Harris - 1973

Gilded butterflies: The Rise and Fall of the London Season - 1978

Special Friends - 1979

The Shortest Journey - 1984 - ISBN 0-04-291018-8

To the Light - 1985

Spiritual and Lay Healing - 1988

Healing with Chakra Energy: Restoring the Natural Harmony of the Body - 1994 (with Lilla Beck)

External links

* http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20040314/ai_n12587292/pg_1 - Sunday Herald's review of Holroyd's "Mosaic"
* http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970910/ai_n14132064 - London Independent obituary on Pullar
* http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970913/ai_n14132639 - a friend reminisces about her personality in the London Independent
* http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944393,00.html - Time Magazine review of Pullar's "Consuming Passions"
* http://oddbooks.co.uk/harris/pullar.html - review of Pullar's biography of Frank Harris
* http://oddbooks.co.uk/harris/person.php?name=pullar_philippa - brief sketch of some of Pullar's life and work
* http://www.globalideasbank.org/ndw/NDW-38.HTML - article on Pullar's death from cancer