Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith (b. 1975) is a British novelist and essayist born in Willesden, North London, to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She studied English literature at King's College, Cambridge, where she began writing White Teeth; the novel was the subject of a publisher bidding war before she had even graduated. Its publication in 2000 made her an instant literary sensation at the age of twenty-four. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by White Teeth.