Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth The Autograph Man On Beauty NW and
Swing Time as well as a novella The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays
Changing My Mind and editor of The Book of Other People . 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 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 American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
