![]() Two more novels – The Autograph Man (2002) and On Beauty (2005) – arrived in quick succession. It is a perfect literary storm.Īll this would be enough to turn anyone’s head, but Smith, very wisely, kept hers down. Millennium hangovers have scarcely subsided and Smith is already being hailed as the ‘voice of a “new England”’. Rapturous praise and a glut of awards follow. ![]() It gets picked up by Hamish Hamilton, and on the strength of eighty manuscript pages a two-book, six-figure deal is struck before she’s even graduated. ![]() As a student at Cambridge she writes White Teeth (2000), an ebullient, epically proportioned novel about multicultural London. Yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success. Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous ![]()
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