I know nothing about Philip Larkin. What can you tell me about him?
Philip was an amazing well known English poet and novelist. 
What are some of his famous works?
He has written many best sellers I read one in college A Girl in Winter it is a older book but one of many of his greatest poet collections. 
Oh that sounds beautiful! What was it about?
Like many of his books it was a more so passion and glum accuracy about emotions the irony of the book was great.
I love books of this nature. I will definitely check it out. I'm assuming he is deceased? Does he have any other popular works?
Yes he passed in 1985 another top poetry book is The less deceived I havn't actually read the full book but read parts of the text on E reader. 
These are great suggestions which I will most certainly try to find and read. Was he one of your favorites?
a first in English language and literature, Larkin became a librarian. It was during the thirty years he worked with distinction as university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull that he produced the greater part of his published work. His poems are marked by what Andrew Motion calls "a very English, glum accuracy” about emotions, places, and relationships, and what Donald Davie described as "lowered sights and diminished expectations". Eric Homberger (echoing Randall Jarrell) called him "the saddest heart in
writing to Lytton Strachey, asked, "Please tell me what you find in Henry James. ... we have his works here, and I read, and I can't find anything but faintly tinged rose water, urbane and sleek, but vulgar and pale as Walter Lamb. Is there really any sense in it?" The novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote, "He did not know the English as an Englishman instinctively knows them and so his English characters never to my mind quite ring true," and argued "