Philipp Meyer
Philipp Meyer (born May 3, 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. D. Salinger.
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