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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975.

Her first novel, White Teeth, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man 2002, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction and in 2003, she was nominated by Granta as one of 20 "Best of Young British Novelists." Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in 2005, and she is also writing a nonfiction book about writing, Fail Better.
 
Zadie Smith is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Wednesday, April 26 at 8:00
Faith & Reason: Writers Speak

Sunday, April 30 at 3:30
Conversations in the Library: Zadie Smith & Kurt Andersen
Smith Online
Listen to the interview with Smith on Fresh Air, and read an excerpt from On Beauty. >>More

Read Smith's article "You Are in Paradise" from The New Yorker. >>More

Read "The Peculiar Second Marriage of Archie Jones," an excerpt from White Teeth. >>More
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