Zadie Smith |
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Author:
| Walters, Tracey |
Series title: | Today's Writers and Their Works |
ISBN: | 978-1-280-66716-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | Cavendish Square Publishing LLC
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $42.79 |
Book Description:
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Zadie Smith made a huge splash in 1997 when, as a college student, she received one of the largest advances in British history for her novel White Teeth. Since then, Smith has published four major novels, a volume of essays, and many short stories. She has become a college professor, an award-winner, and an influential critic of both literature and the current political scene. Readers of Zadie Smith will learn about how insecure and outside of society she felt as a child and young...
More DescriptionZadie Smith made a huge splash in 1997 when, as a college student, she received one of the largest advances in British history for her novel White Teeth. Since then, Smith has published four major novels, a volume of essays, and many short stories. She has become a college professor, an award-winner, and an influential critic of both literature and the current political scene. Readers of Zadie Smith will learn about how insecure and outside of society she felt as a child and young woman, and how that very sense of being an outsider transformed her into the writer of clarity she is today.