Zadie Smith (Author of White Teeth)
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Zadie Smith


Born
in London Borough of Brent, The United Kingdom
October 27, 1975

Website

Genre
Fiction, Essays

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


Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. 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. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the Amer ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.7 · 468,636 ratings · 40,720 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors
White Teeth
3.79 avg rating — 158,116 ratings — published 2000 — 203 editions
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On Beauty
3.77 avg rating — 82,597 ratings — published 2005 — 127 editions
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Swing Time
3.56 avg rating — 73,093 ratings — published 2016 — 32 editions
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NW
3.48 avg rating — 41,753 ratings — published 2012 — 72 editions
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Intimations
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,867 ratings — published 2020 — 31 editions
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The Fraud
3.33 avg rating — 18,674 ratings — published 2023 — 29 editions
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The Autograph Man
3.16 avg rating — 12,851 ratings — published 2002 — 69 editions
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Feel Free: Essays
3.82 avg rating — 7,813 ratings — published 2018 — 39 editions
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Grand Union
3.27 avg rating — 8,782 ratings — published 2019 — 36 editions
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Changing My Mind: Occasiona...
3.83 avg rating — 6,009 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Quotes by Zadie Smith  (?)
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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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Polls

February is literary/general fiction month and since it is Black History Month, we will read a book by a black author, AND/OR centering on the black experience.
Last day to vote - January 10, 2023

White Teeth White Teeth by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith
 
  2 votes, 40.0%

The Nickel Boys The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead
 
  1 vote, 20.0%

The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison
 
  1 vote, 20.0%

 
  1 vote, 20.0%

Small Island Small Island by Andrea Levy Andrea Levy
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Little Bee Little Bee by Chris Cleave Chris Cleave
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes
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