W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Dinaw Mengestu, MacArthur Fellow, acclaimed novelist, and professor of English, Brooklyn College Wednesday, November 11 | 7 pm Performing Arts and Humanities Building, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall An Ethiopian-American novelist who has garnered widespread critical acclaim for his intimate depictions of the immigrant experience in America, Dinaw Mengestu was named a “20 under 40” writer by The New Yorker and received the National Book Award Foundation’s “5 under 35” Award for his debut novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. This novel tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, who fled the Ethiopian Revolution and immigrated …