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Zadie Smith


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

Website

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 · 546,355 ratings · 50,905 reviews · 123 distinct works • Similar authors
White Teeth
3.79 avg rating — 180,853 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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On Beauty
3.79 avg rating — 93,806 ratings — published 2005 — 114 editions
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Swing Time
3.56 avg rating — 78,517 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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NW
3.48 avg rating — 46,496 ratings — published 2012 — 77 editions
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The Fraud
3.25 avg rating — 36,683 ratings — published 2023 — 49 editions
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Intimations
3.97 avg rating — 29,372 ratings — published 2020 — 31 editions
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The Autograph Man
3.16 avg rating — 13,507 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Grand Union
3.24 avg rating — 10,160 ratings — published 2019 — 39 editions
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Feel Free: Essays
3.82 avg rating — 8,459 ratings — published 2018 — 39 editions
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Changing My Mind: Occasiona...
3.83 avg rating — 6,209 ratings — published 2009 — 16 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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