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May 01, 1974 New York City, New York, United States 50 years old
American writer
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About Philipp Meyer
- Philipp Meyer (born January 5, 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and other places.
- Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel.
- Meyer won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize.
- He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France.
- In 2017 he was named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Meyer considers his literary influences to be "the modernists, basically Woolf, Faulkner, Joyce, Hemingway, Welty, etc." Various outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and the UK's Telegraph have compared his writing to William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and J.
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