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.