name: Dinaw Mengestu
birth_date: 1978-06-30 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: V.S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson, Toni Morrison
avg_rating: 3.61
ratings_count: 18707
about: Left Ethiopia at age two and was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Graduated from Georgetown University and received his MFA from Columbia University. In 2010 he was chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker.