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...