By Josh Cooper
One of the country’s rising literary stars is coming to Jackson Hole.
Fiction author, professor and MacArthur fellow Dinaw Mengestu will be speaking at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Teton County Library’s Ordway Auditorium as part of the library’s “Writers in the Library” series. The event is free and open to the public.
His first book, “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,” was published in 2007. His second, called “How to Read the Air,” was published in 2010. His latest effort, “All Our Names,” was released earlier this year.
He has recieved numerous awards, including a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2008, a “20 Under 40” award from The New Yorker in 2010. and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2012. Read more …