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Zadie Smith
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I've read On Beauty and White Teeth. In my personal opinion I found On Beauty to be a much better book. I thought White Teeth was too long, clumsily written almost and the ending was unrealistic.
judygreeneyes January 19th, 2011 02:20 PM PST
I read On Beauty in the last few years. I loved the story, the diversity of the characters, and the insiders view of academia. The various relationships/interactions between black and white characters as well as the challenges experienced by the children of a black mom and white dad were very interesting.
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Zadie Smith (born 1975) is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on September 1, 2010.
Zadie Smith was born as Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent – a largely working-class area – to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith. Her mother had grown up in Jamaica and emigrated to England in 1969.
White Teeth was published in 2000. The novel became a bestseller immediately. It was praised internationally and won a number of awards.
In interviews she reported that the hype surrounding her first novel had caused her to suffer a short spell of writer's block. Nevertheless, her second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002 and was a commercial success, although the critical response was not as positive as it had been to White Teeth.
After the publication of The Autograph Man, Smith visited the United States as a 2002–2003 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at Harvard University. She published an essay collection Changing My Mind, published in November 2009.
The second novel was followed by another, On Beauty, published in September 2005 and which is set largely in and around Greater Boston and which attracted more acclaim. This third novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Smith met Nick Laird at Cambridge University, and they married in 2004. The couple lives in New York City and London. They have a daughter, Katherine (born 2009). (source of this info is Wikipedia)
nickyturnill May 29th, 2007 03:01 PM PST