Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

FRSL
Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction
Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction
BornSadie Smith
(1975-10-25) 25 October 1975 (age 49)
London, England
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • professor
EducationKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
Period2000–present
Literary movement
Notable worksWhite Teeth (2000)
On Beauty (2005)
NW (2012)
Swing Time (2016)
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Children2
RelativesDoc Brown (brother)
Zadie Smith's voice
Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
Website
www.zadiesmith.com Edit this at Wikidata

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English[1] novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.[2]

  1. ^ "Perhaps Soon Zadie Smith Will Know What She's Doing (and then Just You Watch Out) by Dave". www.powells.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Zadie Smith to Join NYU Creative Writing Faculty", NYU, 25 June 2009.