Biography
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Prize, and was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her other novels include, The Autograph Man, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia. She has three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Her debut theatrical work, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer premiered at the Kiln Theatre.