Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
 In 2008, "The Times" named Spark as No. 8 in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.
 In 2008, "The Times" included her in a list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
 In 2012, "The Observer" named her final novel, "The Blue Flower" one of "the ten best historical novels".
Edward James Hughes, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.
 Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
 He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
 In 2008 "The Times" ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist.
 His best-known novels are "Money" (1984) and "London Fields" (1989).
 He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir "Experience" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for "Time's Arrow" and longlisted in 2003 for "Yellow Dog").
 Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.
 In 2008, "The Times" named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.
 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".
 In 2008, "The Times" named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
 In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
 Her first published novel, "Under the Net", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
 In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
 Her books include "The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "The Philosopher's Pupil" (1983), "The Good Apprentice" (1985), "The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987), "The Message to the Planet" (1989), and "The Green Knight" (1993).
 In 2008, "The Times" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.
 She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class.
 Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize.
 She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure".
 In 2008, "The Times" named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
The Tin Princess (1994) is a young adult novel by the English author Philip Pullman, part of the Sally Lockhart series.
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner.
 In 2008, "The Times" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist.
 His first book, "In Patagonia" (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales.
 He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel "On the Black Hill" (1982) and his novel "Utz" (1988) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
 In 2008 "The Times" named Chatwin #46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945."

Question: What author was named one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945" and wrote the novel The Tin Princess?
Answer: Philip Pullman