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Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and editor of The Book of Other People.Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.
Nothing of Smith's since White Teeth has been received so positively, but her novels continue to be praised and Smith herself remains at the intellectual forefront. She continues to write for such powerful institutions as The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and her essays are frequently featured in Best American Essays.
Get this from a library! The best American nonrequired reading 2003. (Dave Eggers; Zadie Smith;) -- A collection including new fiction, essays, satire, journalism, among others. Intended for a mature audience. Contains some adult themes.
About the Author. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975, and continues to live both there and in New York, where she teaches on the Creative Writing programme at NYU. White Teeth was first published in 2000 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the WH Smith Book Award for New Talent, the.
The Best American Essays 2014 (Contributor) 140 copies, 2 reviews; Stop What You're Doing and Read This! (Contributor) 133 copies, 9 reviews Granta 67: Women and Children First (Composer) 119 copies; The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (Contributor) 112 copies, 7 reviews; Zadie Smith Introduces the Burned Children of America (Introduction, some editions) 105 copies, 1 review.
The final essay, “Joy,” is one of my favorite essays ever and is, I believe, the best in this collection. Readers of Zadie Smith who have read some of her nonfiction previously will enjoy this collection immensely, as she expands her range and offers stunning cultural commentary through the present day.
Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free and the collection of short fiction Grand Union.She is also the editor of The Book of Other People.Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and.