Philipp Meyer is an American fiction writer, born on May 3, 1974. He is renowned for his novels American Rust and The Son, alongside short stories featured in The New Yorker and other publications. Additionally, Meyer created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel.

Meyer has been the recipient of numerous accolades including the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He also won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France. In 2017, Meyer was named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Meyer identifies his literary influences as "the modernists, basically Woolf, Faulkner, Joyce, Hemingway, Welty, etc." His writing has been likened to that of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and J. D. Salinger by various outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and the UK's Telegraph.