Zadie A. Smith

Zadie Smith is a novelist and essayist. Her first novel, White Teeth, is a portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. The book won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book), and has been translated into over 20 languages. She was Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, which resulted in the publication of the anthology Piece of Flesh. Her second novel, The Autograph Man, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, On Beauty, won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also published two collections of non-fiction, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays and Feel Free, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. A graduate at Cambridge University, she has taught at New York University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.