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American rust collier county public library overdrive. Philipp meyer born january 5, 1974 is an american fiction writer, and is the author of the novels american rust and the son, as well as short stories published in the new yorker and other places. In the first few pages of the son, philipp meyers followup to the highly praised american rust, a 100yearold man called eli mccullough describes the texas he knew, before its glories were. The author of the novel the son, now a series on amc, is creatively inspired by poetry.