Rumour has it that Hamish Hamilton accepted the manuscript for publication and paid its advance of £250,000 on the strength of eighty pages which ZS submitted to them in the year of her graduation from...
Family and Intimate relationships
Zadie Smith
ZS's father, Harvey Smith, was born an Englishman and a Greater Londoner. His family was poor: his parents could not afford the uniform needed to send him to grammar school, so this avenue...