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Zadie Smith is a novelist, essayist and short story writer. As of 2012, she has published four novels, White Teeth (2000), The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), and NW (2012), all of which have received critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors and Smith won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006. Her novel White Teeth was included in Time magazines TIME 100 Best English-language. Smith joined NYU's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor in 2010. Smith attended Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King's College, Cambridge University where she studied English literature. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from White Teeth… (more)
White Teeth 13,401 copies, 239 reviews
On Beauty 9,178 copies, 220 reviews
The Autograph Man 2,983 copies, 41 reviews
Swing Time 2,415 copies, 96 reviews
NW 2,339 copies, 95 reviews
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 1,004 copies, 31 reviews
The Book of Other People (Editor) 726 copies, 14 reviews
Feel Free: Essays 633 copies, 16 reviews
Intimations: Six Essays 579 copies, 26 reviews
Grand Union: Stories 455 copies, 19 reviews
The Fraud 196 copies, 6 reviews
The Embassy of Cambodia 187 copies, 7 reviews
The Burned Children of America (Editor; Introduction, some editions) 117 copies, 1 review
The Wife of Willesden 66 copies, 2 reviews
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Introduction, some editions) 18,425 copies, 337 reviews
The Quiet American (Introduction, some editions) 7,816 copies, 178 reviews
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Introduction, some editions) 7,537 copies, 123 reviews
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Introduction, some editions) 3,039 copies, 50 reviews
The Buddha of Suburbia (Introduction, some editions) 2,920 copies, 51 reviews
Girl With Curious Hair (Foreword, some editions) 2,194 copies, 30 reviews
Speaking with the Angel (Contributor) 1,508 copies, 17 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (Introduction) 742 copies, 11 reviews
Writer's Thesaurus (Contributor) 547 copies, 10 reviews
The Library Book (Contributor) 378 copies, 15 reviews
Recitatif: A Story (Introduction, some editions) 295 copies, 15 reviews
Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (Contributor) 271 copies, 2 reviews
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 261 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2010 (Contributor) 224 copies, 7 reviews
The Best American Essays 2011 (Contributor) 220 copies, 4 reviews
Best European Fiction 2010 (Preface) 164 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2014 (Contributor) 161 copies, 2 reviews
Stop What You're Doing and Read This! (Contributor) 156 copies, 9 reviews
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The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
Busted in New York and Other Essays (Foreword, some editions) 45 copies, 1 review
The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 (Contributor) 24 copies, 1 review
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill (Introduction) 15 copies
The Paris Review 208 2014 Spring (Contributor) 15 copies, 2 reviews
The Story About the Story Vol. II (Contributor) 10 copies
White Teeth [2002 TV mini series] (Original book) 2 copies

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