For the German politician, see Philipp Meyer (politician). For the journalism professor, see Philip Meyer.
Philipp Meyer
Meyer in 2017
Born
(1974-05-03) May 3, 1974 (age 50) New York City, US[1]
Occupation
Novelist
Education
Cornell University (BA) University of Texas, Austin (MFA)
Period
2009–present
Website
philippmeyer.net
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.[2] Meyer won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[3] and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize.[4] He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France.[5] 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."[6] 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,[7] Ernest Hemingway,[8] Cormac McCarthy,[9] and J. D. Salinger.[10]
^Jennifer L. Knox (14 June 2010). "Philipp Meyer". The New Yorker. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
^Alter, Alexandra (29 March 2017). "In AMC's Western 'The Son,' the Novelist Philipp Meyer Lassoes TV". The New York Times.
^John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Site "Philipp Meyer Bio"
^"The Pulitzer Prizes".
^"Simone Schwarz-Bart et Philipp Meyer lauréats du prix Littérature Monde". www.leparisien.fr. Archived from the original on 2015-05-20.
^"Deep in the Heart of Texas: Philipp Meyer on 'The Son'". omnivoracious.com. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
^"Is Philipp Meyer the Next William Faulkner?".
^Ron Charles (2021-08-20) [2009-02-25]. "Book World Review: Philipp Meyer's 'American Rust'". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.[please check these dates]
^"The Son by Philipp Meyer, review".
^Kakutani, Michiko (26 February 2009). "Steel Town Roots, Huck Finn Dreams". The New York Times.
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