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	Zadie Smith page - biography bibliography short stories interviews
		Zadie was so amazed that her father had ever been to a party, that she had to create that scene.
		Zadie Smith did have some good times at school, but perhaps she was a little introverted, and spent plenty of time in her room reading, for which consumers of literature can be thankful.
		Zadie Smith is also in the running for the Decibel Award, which is given to the African, Caribbean, or Asian writer who has made the greatest contribution to the literary year, and On Beauty has now won the 2006 Orange Prize, as well as a Somerset Maugham Award.
	www.authortrek.com /zadiesmithpage.html (0 words)

	Zadie Smith (Bold Type Magazine)
		Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a delightfully cacophonous tale that spans 25 years of two families' assimilation in North London.
		Smith proves herself to be a master at drawing fully-realized, vibrant characters, and she demonstrates an extraordinary ear for dialogue.
		It boggles the mind that Zadie Smith is only 24 years old, and this novel is a clarion call announcing the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0700/smith (194 words)

	Zadie Smith - TIME
		Smith's precocious debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, just three years after she graduated from Cambridge, centers on two World War II buddies—a white working-class Brit married to a Jamaican Jehovah's Witness and a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh who imports what he thinks will be a traditional wife from the old country.
		But it's also the story of their children, who grow up, as Smith did, in a post-postcolonial London where the old gentlemen's agreements about class and race are being shredded.
		Last year Smith published On Beauty, a novel set in the hothouse of American academia and scheduled to be made into a movie produced by Scott Rudin, who has adapted such provocative works as The Hours and Closer for the screen.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187314,00.html (0 words)

	Amazon.com: White Teeth: A Novel: Books: Zadie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light.
		Smith contrasts Samad's faith in providence with Magid's desire to seize control of the future, involving all of her characters in a debate concerning past and present, determinism and accident.
		Smith certainly isn't afraid to stir such minor topics as race, colonialism, class, gender, culture, religion, fate, sexuality, history and science into her melting pot examination of identity, and as such, it's one of those books whose plot cannot be succinctly outlined.
	www.amazon.com /White-Teeth-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0375703861 (2386 words)

	Stine Jensen
		Zadie Smith zit weggedoken in haar stoel, en kijkt tijdens het gesprek slechts af en toe op.
		Ik kan het niet geloven dat ik zoveel nonsens heb geproduceerd.
		Zadie Smith weet nog niet wanneer we nieuw werk van haar kunnen verwachten.
	www.stinejensen.nl /inter14.php (1268 words)

	'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zadie Smith's first novel, "White Teeth," was a revelation.
		Published when she was 24, it was a blunderbuss of a novel, set in contemporary multicultural London, and dealt with the messy issues that surround us -- religion and class, intermarriage and sex, growing up and growing old, and constructing identity, family and community in a post-everything world.
		Smith's other talents include an enormous sense of wit, a facile prose style and the confidence to tackle huge concerns.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05317/605004.stm (484 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: ZADIE SMITH'S GRINDING HER TEETH
		Smith wasn't half this expressive answering initial questions about "White Teeth.'' This is how one round went, as she sat perched on the edge of her bed dressed in a fl tank top with the word "juicy'' emblazoned across her chest.
		Smith was in her senior year at Cambridge, a school she chose because she thought it was a good place for writers, when she submitted a short story for an anthology that the college produces.
		Smith is planning to explore that darker side with her next novel, since she says she has no desire to become "the bard of Willesden Green.'' This one will feature a half-Jewish, half-Chinese man who's in the autograph-collecting business.
	www.smmirror.com /volume2/issue6/zadie_smith.html (1507 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| White Teeth \| Essays + Interviews \| Zadie Smith
		But unlike many young writers, Smith uses what she knows as the jumping-off point for her story, which reaches back into the wartime past and glimpses the genetic future, all the while astutely capturing the multicultural present.
		Smith's world is rich and believable because she shows us the stupid and fabulous side by side.
		Observers who were waiting for Smith to stumble in her sophomore effort were disappointed; she's got the knack of novel writing as surely as she once knew her dance moves.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/teeth/ei_smith.html (433 words)

	Zadie Smith Summary
		Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith (she changed her name when she was 14, reportedly to give herself a different, exotic touch) in the northwest London borough of Brent – mainly working-class area – to a Jamaican mother and an English father.
		From childhood on she developed various interests and abilities: as a child she was fond of tap dancing; as a teenager she considered a career as an actor in musical theatre; and as a university student she earned money as a jazz singer and wanted to become a journalist.
		Smith's first novel White Teeth is built around three families - the British and Jamaican Joneses, the Bangladeshi Iqbals and the Jewish Catholic Chalfens - and presents several races, religions, generations and locations.
	www.bookrags.com /Zadie_Smith (2058 words)

	Zadie Smith & the pleasure of uncertainty - Arts
		Zadie Smith has a Jamaican mother and a British father and sold her debut, White Teeth, after a bidding war while still an undergraduate (at King's College, Cambridge).
		Smith read a section of her latest novel, On Beauty, for the audience, using a competent Southern accent when the characterization required it and a "nervous California scream" for another.
		Smith said her next novel would loosely concern an incident from her life, in which a woman came to her door pretending she needed money because her mother had suffered a heart attack when, in reality, it was part of a group of crack addicts scamming the area for cash.
	media.www.dailyiowan.com /media/storage/paper599/news/2006/09/13/Arts/Zadie.Smith.The.Pleasure.Of.Uncertainty-2268859.shtml?norewrite200612142036&sourcedomain=www.dailyiowan.com (471 words)

	Zadie Smith : On Beauty : Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zadie Smith treats us to another somewhat raucous family drama with On Beauty, not unlike White Teeth in certain ways, her critically acclaimed debut novel for which she won the Whitbread Award in 2000.
		Smith seems to have hit a stride; the playfulness with the language is still there, she is still a master of dialogue and incredibly witty, but I found On Beauty to be a much smoother read than her previous two novels.
		Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /contemp/smithzadie.htm (1258 words)

	Smith.html
		Smith's hobbies as a child however, did not limit themselves to writing; she tap-danced for ten years.
		Because of the social and political import of her novel, Smith was encouraged to become a spokeswoman for socio-political issues by the media and literary critics.
		Smith laments, "I was expected to be some expert on multicultural affairs, as if multiculturalism is a genre of fiction or something, whereas it's just a fact of life - like there are people of different races on the planet" (Hattenstone).
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Smith.html (1210 words)

	Amazon.ca: On Beauty: Books: Zadie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zadie Smith is a talented, witty writer, and her book is rather amiable; indeed, it fairly glows with a sort of humane appreciation for people, places and things.
		Zadie Smith does know that there are many Leonard Basts out there in America: in pursuit of beauty, but angry and resentful because they have been deprived of it, or because it has been literally robbed from them.
		Zadie Smith has produced a very timely novel, as the truth in her novel has been made self-evident by the ugly catastrophe of Katrina.
	www.amazon.ca /Beauty-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143017632 (2520 words)

	White Teeth by Zadie Smith \| Critics \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Zadie Smith appears to be keeping her feet on the ground - and in earthy Willesden too - but heaven knows how.
		Smith, a 24-year-old just out of Cambridge, had been given a £250,000 advance and hailed as "the new Salman Rushdie" by her publisher.
		Smith herself, in an interview in the Observer, hinted that she was keen not to be seen as a writer of baggy, generous, all-life-is-here novels.
	books.guardian.co.uk /critics/reviews/0,5917,129206,00.html (968 words)

	Zadie Smith (person)@Everything2.com
		Smith was originally Sadie Smith, but changed her name to Zadie at the age of fourteen in order to to make herself sound more exotic, shortly before her parents were divorced.
		To some Zadie Smith is a literary sensation and a major new writer, to others she is an over-hyped adolescent scribbler of little or no talent.
		Smith is married to fellow novellist and poet Nick Laird whom she met at Cambridge University; they live at Kilburn in North London.
	everything2.com /?node_id=1852903 (783 words)

	White Teeth: A Conversation with Author Zadie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zadie Smith is living the fairy-tale story dreamed of by young (and aged) writers everywhere.
		At 20 years of age, Smith was already writing opening paragraphs that give readers that goosepimply sensation that starts somewhere at the base of the spine and spreads rapidly to alight the entire body.
		But Smith, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and a Caucasian English father, is as disarmingly witty and charming in speech as in her writing.
	bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu /wstudies/ogrady/zsmith2004.htm (3842 words)

	Amazon.ca: On Beauty A Novel: Books: Zadie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smith is tremendously famous and respected for her age (she is in her early 30s), and bears some sort of resemblance to her generation in Britain, as F. Scott Fitzgerald did to his in America.
		When Smith tries to catch the hyper-hip argot that is so-last-minute America, always just-fled, on the fly, Google-made, TV-led, water-cooler-now, she falls face forward, fighting with her countervailing Oxbridge tendency to pull back when all should be zip and flow.
		In this, Zadie Smith seems to be taking her cue from Elaine Scarry's essay, "On Beauty and Being Just" (which Zadie does acknowledge to be one inspiration for the title of this novel).
	www.amazon.ca /Beauty-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0670045276 (2540 words)

	Zadie Smith
		Novelist Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith on October 27th, 1975 in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother.
		Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions.
		It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation.
	authors.aalbc.com /zadie.htm (629 words)

	Zadie Smith goes to town - The Boston Globe
		Novelist Zadie Smith, 29, has all of these things as her new novel, ''On Beauty," gets bravura reviews, ascends the US bestseller lists, and contends for Britain's top literary prize.
		Smith's Jamaican-born mother and white father were divorced when Zadie (who changed her name from Sadie) was 12.
		Smith is still in awe of her heroes.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/10/08/zadie_smith_goes_to_town (1514 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Zadie Smith
		Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in North London in 1975, the daughter of a working-class English father and Jamaican mother.
		Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man, was met with success upon its 2002 release, but did not garner as universally positive a response as White Teeth.
		Smith's storytelling style inspired the term “Hysterical Realism,” a concept that refers to long-winded, opinionated narratives that evoke emotional richness from mundane events, and are characterized by erratic action and numerous tangents.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_zadie_smith.html (396 words)

	Girl wonder - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smith did not, she recently told the Guardian newspaper, graduate with a Double First (the highest grades possible), as had been reported.
		And yet Smith is aware of the overt and subtle ways in which her life has been affected by race: "When I was little," she told the Guardian, "we'd go on holiday to Devon, and there, if you're fl and you go into a sweetshop, for instance, everyone turns and looks at you.
		Smith will be reading as part of the New Yorker Festival on May 5, an event that will kick off her American book tour.
	dir.salon.com /books/feature/2000/04/28/zadie_profile/index.html (827 words)

	Zadie Smith - Von der Schönheit - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Zadie Smith erzählt in ihrem dritten Roman die Geschichte einer mehr als turbulenten Familie zwischen England und Amerika, schwarz und weiß, Hässlichkeit und Schönheit, Liberalismus und Konservativismus.
		Zadie Smiths neuer Roman ist Rezensent Thomas Leuchtenmüller zufolge nicht unbedingt ihr bester.
		Smith verstehe es außerdem, Milieus, Eigenheiten, Gegensätze und Gemeinsamkeiten von Schwarzen, Mischlingen, Männern und Frauen, Briten und Amerikanern zu einer "faszinierenden Einheit" zu verweben, von deren Suggestivkraft sich der Rezensent immer wieder beeindruckt zeigt.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/24953.html (977 words)

	Zadie Smith Biography
		Author, Zadie Smith was born in London in 1975.
		When Zadie Smith wrote The Autograph Man she thought her father was dying and she was miserable, consequently the book is in her own words 'very angry and sad'.
		Zadie Smith was writer in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).
	www.biogs.com /booker/zadie-smith.html (291 words)

	Zadie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the age of five through to fifteen, she was particularly fond of tap-dancing and as a teenager enjoyed watching musicals and dreaming of a career in front of the camera.
		Although she intended to carve a career in journalism, the interest surrounding her debut novel set Smith up for a particularly public entrance into the literary world and she is now celebrated as one of Britain's most talented young novelists.
		Zadie Smith is currently studying a postgraduate course on the Modern European Novel at Harvard University.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /s/zadie-smith (473 words)

	Interview: Zadie Smith \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Some people have said Smith is depoliticising race, removing it from its historical context, others say she's ahead of her time, representing modern London as it really is for the first time.
		Smith is part way through her second novel, which is about an obsessive autograph hunter, but has written hardly any fiction this year.
		Zadie Smith is a precious talent, one that needs nurturing, perhaps even cocooning.
	books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2000/story/0,6194,417437,00.html (1959 words)

	"On Beauty" by Zadie Smith - Salon
		Academic cultural critics -- who get a few taps on the snout in Zadie Smith's new novel -- often say that works of art can only be fully understood in their historical context.
		Smith is Rembrandtian (and, for that matter, Shakespearean and Tolstoyian) in her inexhaustible interest in and sympathy for even her most disagreeable characters.
		Love, the guiding principle of this and all of Zadie Smith's fiction, is as blind as the proverb declares, but in its blindness, it sees everything.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2005/10/01/smith/index.html (867 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Zadie Smith
		From the age of five through to fifteen, she was particularly fond of tap-dancing and as a teenager enjoyed watching musicals and dreaming of a career in front of the camera.
		Although she intended to carve a career in journalism, the interest surrounding her debut novel set Smith up for a particularly public entrance into the literary world and she is now celebrated as one of Britain's most talented young novelists.
		Zadie Smith is currently studying a postgraduate course on the Modern European Novel at Harvard University.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /bios/zadie_smith.html (250 words)

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