Zadie Smith

(London, 1975) is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a novel and two collections of essays. Her works have won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the Orange Prize. In 2003, she was named Best Young British Novelist by the prestigious magazine Granta, a recognition that was repeated in 2013. In 2006, Time magazine included her in its list of the one hundred most influential people of the year. Zadie Smith is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.