Zadie Smith
Standard Name: Smith, Zadie
Birth Name: Sadie Smith
Self-constructed Name: Zadie
White Teeth, appeared in January 2000, and much comment on it related it to the new millennium. Smith (whose criticism has also been well received) is a novelist in the comic tradition, steeped in the work of predecessors, and also an icon of the contemporary, who writes of multiracial societies though not directly of race, and for whom movies and television programmes are as resonant as books.
began publishing in the 1990s with short stories. Her first, acclaimed novel,