# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philipp-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:32:33.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philipp-meyer"
name: "Philipp Meyer"
slug: "philipp-meyer"
description: "Philipp Meyer is an American fiction writer and the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel. He won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, received 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."
tagline: "American writer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.901315789473685
  historical:           8.403929333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump