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Zadie Smith


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
October 25, 1975

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Genre
Fiction, Essays

Influences
Vladimir Nabokov, E.M. Forster, David Foster Wallace, Charles Dickens, ...more


Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 501,433 ratings · 44,578 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors
White Teeth
3.79 avg rating — 166,673 ratings — published 2000 — 211 editions
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On Beauty
3.78 avg rating — 87,146 ratings — published 2005 — 126 editions
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Swing Time
3.56 avg rating — 75,384 ratings — published 2016 — 82 editions
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NW
3.48 avg rating — 43,638 ratings — published 2012 — 73 editions
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Intimations
3.99 avg rating — 27,959 ratings — published 2020 — 31 editions
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The Fraud
3.28 avg rating — 28,952 ratings — published 2023 — 36 editions
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The Autograph Man
3.16 avg rating — 13,059 ratings — published 2002 — 70 editions
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Feel Free: Essays
3.82 avg rating — 8,033 ratings — published 2018 — 38 editions
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Grand Union
3.26 avg rating — 9,396 ratings — published 2019 — 36 editions
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Changing My Mind: Occasiona...
3.83 avg rating — 6,085 ratings — published 2009 — 46 editions
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“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith
tags: future, grammar, language, past
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
tags: history
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“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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