Zadie Smith

Born

October 25, 1975 (age 50)

Known as

writer, novelist, essayist, academic

Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White 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.

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