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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] Early life and education.
Aug 7, 2024 · Zadie Smith is a British author known for her treatment of race, religion, and cultural identity and for her novels’ eccentric characters, savvy humor, and snappy dialogue. She became a sensation in the literary world with the publication of her first novel, White Teeth, in 2000.
Aug 28, 2023 · Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable. Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s...
Sep 5, 2023 · In 'The Fraud,' author Zadie Smith seeks to 'do absolute justice to the truth' The historical fiction novel centers on a real-life Victorian Era trial. Smith says she doesn't look back on the...
Zadie Smith has contributed numerous short stories, profiles, essays, and personal histories to The New Yorker since her story “Stuart” was published in the magazine in 1999, when she was ...
Oct 27, 1975 · Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.
Dec 7, 2023 · Zadie Smith’s novels measure the weight of history as it is borne by ordinary people. Her first book, White Teeth, like Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved before it, told a national story through a multigenerational family narrative.
