Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith, born in North London in 1975 to an English father and Jamaican mother, studied English at Cambridge and graduated in 1997. Her debut novel, White Teeth, became an international bestseller, winning major awards including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. It has been translated into more than twenty languages, adapted for television and the stage, and recognised by the New York Public Library and the New York Times as one of the most important books of the century. Her second novel, The Autograph Man, won the 2003 Jew...