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Aug 21, 2017 · Author Zadie Smith has a way with words, even when she’s using them to implement rules in her home. The “Swing Time” author spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday, and revealed why she imposed a 15-minute mirror time limit on her daughter , reports Grazia Daily U.K.
Zadie Smith was born on 25 October 1975 [3] in Willesden [4] to an Afro-Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith, [5] who was 30 years his wife's senior. [6] At the age of 14, she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie.
Nov 17, 2016 · In a Slate interview with the inimitable Zadie Smith pegged to her new novel, Swing Time, Isaac Chotiner asks Smith about the impact motherhood has had on her writing. Smith responds that having children was “superuseful,” then shared a short anecdote about when she was pregnant and a male writer asked her if she was worried about ...
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Aug 22, 2017 · Considering that Smith’s daughter is only seven years old, their interaction speaks volumes about how early in life women begin to feel pressure to look a certain way.
May 6, 2024 · Smith, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father, changed the spelling of her first name to Zadie at age 14. She began writing poems and stories as a child and later studied English literature at the University of Cambridge (B.A., 1998).
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Mar 9, 2019 · It is pleasing to note the emergence as a writer of Yvonne Bailey-Smith, having raised and empowered three successful children (Zadie Smith and her brothers), to witness Attillah Springer...
Sep 1, 2023 · Acclaimed British author Zadie Smith is interviewed on-stage in Toronto by Eleanor Wachtel. Finding role models in films "When I was a kid, I was, and I suppose I still am, what people call...
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