Novelist Zadie Smith is present born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She understand writing English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. Her highly praised initial novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of up to date multicultural London, told through the story of three racially diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth …showed first 75 words of 256 total…

…showed last 75 words of 256 total…the introduction for The Burned Children of America (2003), a collection of eighteen short stories by a new generation of young American writers. Zadie Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, fascination and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of adolescent British Novelists'. She is at present a Radcliff Fellow at Harvard institution of higher education.