Discipline: Literature – fiction

Philipp Meyer

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Austin, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010
Philipp Meyer worked on his third novel. His second novel, The Son, was runner-up for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize.

Studios

Wood

Philipp Meyer worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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