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Philipp Meyer
Philipp Meyer grew up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore. His mother is an artist; his father taught college science for twenty years after working variously as a cabinet maker, electrician, and art installer.
The neighborhood, Hampden, had been hit hard by the collapse of various heavy industries, and crime and unemployment were high. Meyer attended city public schools until dropping out at age 16 and getting a GED.
He spent the next five years working as a bicycle mechanic and occasionally volunteering at Baltimores Shock Trauma Center.Meyer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010 and a Dobie Paisano Fellow that same year.
He is an avid outdoorsman and splits his time between Austin, Texas and New York.
The neighborhood, Hampden, had been hit hard by the collapse of various heavy industries, and crime and unemployment were high. Meyer attended city public schools until dropping out at age 16 and getting a GED.
He spent the next five years working as a bicycle mechanic and occasionally volunteering at Baltimores Shock Trauma Center.Meyer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010 and a Dobie Paisano Fellow that same year.
He is an avid outdoorsman and splits his time between Austin, Texas and New York.
Awards: LA Times (2009) see all
Genres: Western, Literary Fiction
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Books containing stories by Philipp Meyer
The United States of McSweeney's (2009)
Ten Years of Accidental Classics
edited by
Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007 (2007)
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Edward P Jones
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Philipp Meyer recommends
Old King (2024)
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Memory and Desire (2023)
Philip Caputo
"A master investigator of the human psyche in the mold of Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Bellow."
A Line in the Sand (2023)
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