Zadie Smith
Biography
Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in London in 1975. She changed her name to Zadie when she was fourteen. Her father is English and her mother Jamaican. She studied English at King’s College, Cambridge. A publisher saw some of her stories in a student publication and offered her a contract for a novel. She completed this novel – White Teeth – by the end of her course at Cambridge. It was published in 2000 and was immediately successful. She has since published further novels.
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Learning curve (profile)
Girl wonder (profile)
Dead Man Laughing (article by Smith)
Zadie Smith: The Literary Material Girl
Zadie Smith’s rules for writers
Zadie Smith on Kafka
Discussion with Ian McEwan
Interview
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Bibliography
2000 White Teeth (novel)
2002 The Autograph Man (novel)
2005 On Beauty (novel)
2012 NW (novel)
2013 The Embassy of Cambodia (novel)
2016 Feel Free (essays)
2016 Swing Time (novel)
2021 The Wife of Willesden (drama)
2021 Weirdo (with Nick Laird) (children’s)
2022 Surprise (with Nick Laird) (children’s)
2023 The Fraud (novel)