name: Zadie Smith
birth_date: 1975-10-25 00:00:00
genres: Fiction, Essays
influences: E.M. Forster, Salman Rushdie, P.G. Wodehouse, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Charles Dickens, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Carver, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Amis, Hanif Kureishi
avg_rating: 3.69
ratings_count: 502281
about: Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.