Pu Songling was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Pu was born into a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan . At the age of nineteen, he received the gongsheng degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the xiucai degree. He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.
| Birthdate: | June 5, 1640 |
| Birthplace: | Zibo |
| Date of death: | February 25, 1715 |
| Also known as: | Sung-ling Pʻu, Sung-ling Pu, P'u Sung-ling |