Philipp Meyer, acclaimed author of The Son and American Rust, will give a readingThursday night at 7 p.m. at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, on the campus of West Texas A&M University.
The Son, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2014, is generally regarded as one of the finest novels ever written about Texas. The novel was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Amazon and Toronto Globe and Mail, and will soon be the basis for a series on AMC.
Meyer's first novel, American Rust, about a Pennsylvania steel town, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named a “Book of the Year” by The Economist. A movie is currently in the works.
Meyer has been compared to Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner, and he was named one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40. His presentation, entitled “The Son: Fact, Fiction and the Settling of the American West,” is part of the university’s Western Writers series. Meyer will also meet with WTAMU students at a 2 p.m. Q&A session.
