Zadie Smith
Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Reading at ASU Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Admission: Free
Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book). Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also written a nonfiction book about writing—Fail Better (2006). Zadie Smith is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.
