Philip Pullman writes in the latest Children’s Digest email that his identity has been stolen on popular social networking site Facebook.

“I now learn that there is an entry on Facebook in my name. Someone has lifted some photos out of various publicly accessible sources, copied some of the material from my website, and added a lot of comments in his or her own clumsy and facetious words. I have asked the Facebook controllers to withdraw this entry at once, but if anyone (and I believe this liar has been corresponding with some bookshops) is under the delusion that they’re talking to me, please be disabused.

“I would personally like to go and strangle the wretch who has wasted my time and possibly other people’s like this, but I shall have to make do with sending out this warning.”

So for anybody who thought they had found Mr Pullman himself, you now know otherwise!