What author of several best-selling books also wrote The Scarlet Slippers?
I Was a Rat:  or The Scarlet Slippers" by Philip Pullman. Philip Pullman: Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. Philip Pullman:  He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy "His Dark Materials" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ".
Philip Pullman