Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith was born in 1975 and grew up in Willesden, in North London, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father. She graduated from King's College, Cambridge, in 1997. White Teeth, her first novel, is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, The Guardian First Book Award Winner, and Whitbread First Novel Award Winner.


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