Zadie Smith Biography:
Zadie Smith was born in London on October 27, 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. Zadie Smith's talent was recoginized early by the publishing world. While studying English literature at Kings College, Cambridge, she was offered a contract for her first novel solely on the basis a handful of short stories.
When White Teeth (2000) was published, it met with international acclaim, winning the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Autograph Man, Smith's second novel, won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2003.
Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty (2005) was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
Dates:
(1975-)
Nationality:
British
Notable Work:
On Beauty (2005)
