Zadie Smith is a celebrity author - although the writing came first. She was born in north London in 1975 and reportedly attended comprehensive school before going on to read English at Cambridge. It was there she signed the deal for her first novel, White Teeth (2000). The novel is a vibrant portrait of multicultural London, told through the story of three very different families. The book won a whole host of awards and prizes including; the Whitbread First Novel Award; the Commonwealth Writers Prize; and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It also propelled Smith into the category of celebrity author. The book was adapted for television in 2002.
Her second book, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, received a more muted reception. Still, in 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. and she moved to Harvard in the US to teach literature. He latest novel, On Beauty is now available in paperback having racked-up another long list of awards and prizes.
Smith who is married to prize-winning poet Nick Laird was named in a TIME magazine 100 and named among the people whose 'power, talent or moral example is transforming our lives.
She of English and Jamaican parentage.

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