Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction
Born
Sadie Smith

(1975-10-25) 25 October 1975
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • professor
EducationKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
Period2000–present
Literary movement
Notable worksWhite Teeth (2000)
On Beauty (2005)
NW (2012)
Swing Time (2016)
Spouse
(m. 2004)
Children2
RelativesBen Bailey Smith (brother)
Website
www.zadiesmith.com

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie Smith; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novelWhite Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.